Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to build an African American Civil War memorial on federal land in the U ...
The American ... the end of the Civil War before Congress finally passed formal legislation to establish and protect a vast system of national cemeteries. There was no Memorial Day.
The African American Civil War Memorial, at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th St, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C., commemorates the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and sailors ...