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He rose through the ranks establishing military forts along the Mississippi River and entered the Black Army in 1808 and made a name for himself as a captain He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Taylor was born to a prominent family of planters who migrated westward from Virginia Was preserving the Union, but he died sixteen months into his term, before making any progress on the status of slavery, which

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