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• 5th Regiment Cavalry, United States Colored Troops (Home Page)
  • Gabriel's Journey, by Alison Hart
  • 7th Annual Memorial Service Held in Saltville on October 2, 2004 | Program and Photo Gallery
  • Remembering Saltville, The Roanoke Times, September 28, 2001
  • Saltville Service Will Remember Civil War Tragedy

  • Slaughtered Soldiers Receive Their Burial Service

  • Photo Gallery of Second Annual Event Honoring the Men of the 5th & 6th USCC Murdered After the Battle of Saltville

  • "What do you mean?  A Fair Question.”  Rev. Garry Moore's Remarks at Memorial Ceremony, Oct. 2, 1998
  • Autopsy for a Massacre/Radford Researchers Enlisting NASA's Aid in Saltville Project
  • "Researchers delve into Civil War massacre", Atlanta Journal - Constitution, October 31, 1999

  • "A town's tragic history keeps salt in its old wounds", Atlanta Journal -  Constitution, November 1, 1999

  The 5th USCC at Simpsonville

  • Dedication and Unveiling of Simpsonville Massacre Historical Highway Marker / Photos

  • Men of Company "E" Killed at Simpsonville
  • Official Military Reports Concerning the Incident Near Simpsonville
  • Shelby County Kentucky Historical Society awarded grant to identify, recover and preserve the site of the "Simpsonville Slaughter"

  • Remarks of David. E. Brown, Descendant of Private Samuel Truehart,Co. E 5th USCC

• Was There A Massacre in Saltville in 1864?
• Excerpt From: "Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie, Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman", By George Dallas Mosgrove
• Comparison of Various 5th USCC Records Identifying Saltville MIAs
• Units Involved in the Battle of Saltville
• Members of the 5th USCC Listed as Missing in Action After the Battle of Saltville and Still Unaccounted for in 1866
• William Marvel's Process of Elimination
• Thomas Mays' Comments on Marvel's Conclusions
• Marvel's Repsonse
• Surgeon William Egle's "Report of the killed, wounded and missing of the 5th U.S. Col'd. Cavalry at the Battle of Saltville, October 2, 1864"

• My Ancestor, Biography of Private Samuel Truehart, Company E, 5th USCC
• Biography of Private Preston Dawson, Company H, 5th USCC

• Biography of Caleb Walter Balcom, 11th Michigan Cavalry

   

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