A good reminder here of why Memorial Day started: to honor black Americans who died for the Union.
This is a fascinating story and one I had never heard before. As we star four years of Civil War sesquicentennial observation, anytime anybody in the GOP halfway close to Haley Barbour pops up, or whenever we get any more Lost Cause bilge spilled by Southerners, even academic (allegedly) historians, and lapped up by dumb media, we need to look at events like this to get the focus back to what the Civil War ultimately became all about.
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