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EASTVILLE, Va. (Tribune News Service) That
Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks consider his lineage. His grandfather was born enslaved in
Eastville, the seat of
African American and white Union soldiers in its historic square. So many remembrances, particularly in
Virginia, are typically one or the other. His grandfather fought for the Union’s Colored Troops, survived one of the war’s most notorious battles, and later befriended the Confederate general who tried to slaughter his unit.
Peter Jacob Carter worked as if it were never too late, nor chasms too wide to breach, to try to do the right thing.