Learn more about the role of black troops during the Civil War at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.
Cyril Lagvanec, Ph.D., will talk about the history of United States Colored Troops, Union Army regiments that primarily were African Americans, although some other ethnic groups served as well.
Established in response to a demand for more units from Union Army commanders, these regiments, which numbered 175 by the end of the war in 1865, constituted about one-tenth of the manpower of the army…