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Winter has arrived. The tourists are gone and it's quiet atop Petit Jean Mountain this morning.

OPINION COLUMN: Mansfield and 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry Kevin McNatt and Andrew Todesco MANSFIELD - The U.S. census of 1860 shows no African-Americans living in Mansfield at the outbreak of the Civil War. But town clerk records show that nine “colored” men enlisted from Mansfield. So who were these men who responded to the call to arms? During the war the federal government set enlistment quotas for each state. They would have to produce a certain number of volunteers for the war effort. In turn the Commonwealth imposed a quota on every city and town. Early in t...