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'Resurrection 150' Tells the Story of a Key Civil War Skirmish Through the Eyes of a Soldier
The play, presented Saturday at the Missouri History Museum by The Black Rep, recounts the first African Americans to fight as Union soldiers during the Civil War.
On October 29, 1862, Rufus Vann and the other members of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers regiment made history at the Action of Island Mound as the first African Americans to fight as Union soldiers during the Civil War. Vann, who became a corporal in the Union Army after enlisting at age 46, is the focal point of “Resurrection 150,” a short play presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park as part of the museum’s “The Civil War in Missouri” exhibition. The play commemorates the 150th anniversary of a skirmish between the First Kansas regiment and Confederate troops that occurred on the Toothman Farm in western Missouri near the Kansas border. It is written by Linda Kennedy, artistic associate of The Black…
