January 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army

By buckeyemuse | January 2, 2014

January 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army. Albion Tourgee is one Ohio writer who deserves to be better known. Tourgee was a novelist, lawyer, soldier, and judge who made much of his life’s work the advancement of black Americans. Tourgee went south after the Civil War and was one of the…

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