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Description: The Butler Medal, aka the Colored Troops Medal, privately commissioned by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler and presented to nearly 200 of his African American soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. See w:Butler Medal.
Title: US Army Butler Medal
Credit: Williams, George W. (1888) A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Category:New York: Harper & Brothers, pp. p. xvii
Author: Harper & Brothers (publisher)
Permission: Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Behring Center, Transfer from the National Archives and Records Administration
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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