When the Civil War broke out. Cohota joined the 23rd Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. and fought bravely In the Battle of Drurys Bluff near Richmond and at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Mr. Cohota went on to proudly serve in the United States Army for 30 years. In 1935. he died In Hot Springs. South Dakota. still a foreigner in the only homeland he had ever really known. as he had been denied American citizenship after the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. Joseph Pierce is another Asian Pacific Islander who served in uniform during the American Civil War. At age 21.
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