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  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Three Black soldiers executed by Confederates are finally being honored in Virginia

By Gillian Brockell “We captured three Negro soldiers, the first we had seen,” Private Byrd Willis wrote on May 8, 1864. “They were taken out on the road side and shot and their bodies l

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