Civil War for the day

Rico says his friend Esha sends this:

On 29 October 1862, Rufus Vann and the other members of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers regiment made history at the action at Island Mound as the first African-Americans to fight as Union soldiers during the Civil War.
Vann, who became a corporal in the Union Army after enlisting at the age of 46, is the focal point of Resurrection 150, a short play presented recently at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park as part of the museum’s The Civil War in Missouri exhibition.
The play commemorates the 150th anniversary of a skirmish, between the First Kansas regiment and Confederate troops, that occurred on the Toothman Farm in western Missouri, near the Kansas border. It was written by Linda Kennedy, artistic associate of The Black Rep, and directed by Elizabeth A. Pickard, the museum’s assistant director of interpretive programs.