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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

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Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and 50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. Vicksburg venerated the Confederacy and ignored the history of Black soldiers who fought for the Union. On Feb. 14, 1864, at Ross Landing near the town of Lake Village, irregular Confederate troops from Missouri shot the Union soldiers and officers.

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

“As President Lincoln remarked of the Gettysburg dead,” Kruse said, “we, too, can recognize the men who lay in the hallowed grounds of the Vicksburg National Cemetery, and never forget what they did for freedom.”

5 months ago·Birmingham, United States

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. Read more...

5 months ago·Vancouver, United States

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

VICKSBURG — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would continue allowing slavery in the South. Union forces won a pivotal campaign to capture the town of Vicksburg and gain control of…

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

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