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Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.
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The Civil War and emancipation
The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... army would officially accept black soldiers into its ranks.
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The Civil War Still Echoes in the South, Forcing Towns to Take Sides
EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War, usually ... A Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature in ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
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Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil ... War soldiers known as the 1st South ...