Monday, May 28, 2012

Procession highlights Memorial Day role of blacks



Not in 141 years has Fredericksburg seen anything quite like it: More than 100 people, of all ages and races, marching on Memorial Day through the streets toward Fredericksburg National Cemetery to honor its Northern dead. The mile-plus procession, which began at Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site), sought to broaden the area's Civil War story to note blacks' important service in the Union army and their role in the earliest postwar honors given their white comrades in arms....



via FLS News



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