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30 Black Civil War veterans added to downtown monument
A single black plaque featuring two rows of 15 names has been added to the Civil War memorial on the downtown Jacksonville square. Those named were Black soldiers from Jacksonville who fought for the ...
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See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphs
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...