‘To Those Men, Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice’: Three Black Civil War Soldiers Killed In 1864 Honored with New Monument In Rural Virginia
Three unidentified Black Civil War soldiers from the U.S. Colored Troops were properly honored last weekend 157 years after they were lined up and shot execution-style and left on the side of a road in Virginia. Thanks to the efforts of Howard Lambert, who heads the nonprofit organization Freedom Foundation, and in partnership with Civil War…