Headstones for Black Soldiers

1,752 views · Published 2 March 2008 · 2:05 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: Chicago Tribune · 2008 · News & Politics

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For more than a century, the bodies of some 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked graves on the bank of Skull Creek harbor.  Howard Wright wants to change that.

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