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Parker Robbins, U.S. Colored Troops Officer, Lawmaker and Inventor image from N.C. Museum of History.

January 1, 2016

On January 1, 1864, Parker Robbins of Bertie County, a free person of color of mixed African and Native American descent, enlisted in the 2nd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Monroe, Va.