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... They were taken out on the road side and shot and their bodies left there."
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Three Black soldiers executed by Confederates are finally being honored in Virginia
Three Black soldiers executed by Confederates are finally being honored in Virginia
What strikes Howard Lambert most is how casual the reference was, written in a Confederate soldier's diary, between bland notes on his unit's movements and on finding abandoned enemy provisions. "We captured three Negro soldiers, the first we had seen," Private Byrd Willis wrote on May 8, 1864...
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