Over the coming years the tens of thousands of graves of Union - TopicsExpress



          

Over the coming years the tens of thousands of graves of Union soldiers buried in the South would be tended every year on Memorial Day by freedmen and freedwomen. The graves were despised by many Southern whites who saw the Union soldiers as invaders, but for the African Americans the Union soldiers were liberators who had ended slavery. A quarter of those soldiers’ graves belonged to immigrants.
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:57:56 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015