When Black Soldiers Raided Marion County: The Untold Story of the Daring Marshall Plantation Raid

The raid on March 10, 1865, was the only Civil War military action in Marion County. This raid came only weeks before the war's end. A unit of mostly Black combatants, led by a Black Sergeant Major, traveled 100 miles behind enemy lines for the raid, and then walked 80 miles to safety, knowing that Confederate cavalry would be trailing.