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- ↑ Anderson, Javonte. “Remembering the United States Colored Troops who helped win the Civil War.” McLean, Virginia: USA Today, May 31, 2021.
- ↑ Fletcher, Marvin. 2019. “For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops By Kelly D. Mezurek,” in Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 163-65.
- ↑ Fisher, Richard. “The Civil War, Ohioans, and U.S. Colored Troops.” Delaware, Ohio: Delaware County Historical Society, February 8, 2023.
- ↑ “Black Men in Blue program to be presented in Shreve by Walsh University history professor.” Wooster, Ohio: The Daily Record, April 9, 2024.
- ↑ “Kelly Mezurek.” North Canton, Ohio: Walsh University, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- ↑ “Past Nau Civil War Center Library Fellows,” in “Fellowships.” Charlottesville, Virginia: Nau Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- ↑ “Carol Mae (Hadsell) Mezurek” (obituary). Elyria, Ohio: The Chronicle, October 19, 2022.
- ↑ “Official Obituary of Carol Mae (Hadsell) Mezurek.” Valley City, Ohio: Bauer Funeral Home, 2022.
- ↑ “Kelly Mezurek,” Walsh University.
- ↑ “Past Nau Civil War Center Library Fellows,” Nau Center for Civil War History.
- ↑ “Spring 2022 Scholarly Research Fellowships,” in “Recent Fellows.” Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- ↑ “Kelly Mezurek,” Walsh University.
- ↑ “Kelly Mezurek, Walsh University.
- ↑ “About: Kelly D. Mezurek.” Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- ↑ Ramold, Steven J. “Review of For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops, by Kelly D. Mezurek,” in Ohio Valley History, vol. 17, no. 2 (2017), pp. 92-94. Cincinnati, Ohio: The Filson Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and University of Cincinnati.
- ↑ “For Their Own Cause : the 27th United States Colored Troops/Kelly D. Mezurek.” Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- ↑ “Kent Civil War Society welcomes author Kelly Mezurek on Jan. 10.” Kent, Ohio: Record-Courier, January 9, 2017.
