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DOD: Medal of Honor Monday - Army Sgt. Maj. Christian Fleetwood
November 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news story:

After President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, many black men joined the Army to fight for the Union and their freedom. One of them was Christian Fleetwood, who became one of 17 black soldiers to earn the Medal of Honor during the Civil War.

Fleetwood was born on July 21, 1840, into a free family in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated in the hom . . .

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