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National cemetery. And it is here not because u. S. Military or anyone in government said, oh, lets put the soldiers here along with white soldiers. Rather, it is because the africanamericans in a hospital built for blacks here and alexandria wrote a petition requesting that they be buried with other white soldiers. And this occurs because they had been buried for the last six months with the civilians, or contrabands. In a cemetery that the federal government began at about the same time that they started this cemetery for soldiers. These men not only got themselves buried here and some of the men who signed the petition are actually buried here but the actually preserve the posterity of the names in the stones. The civilians on the other hand, had wooden shingles, wooden headboards to mark the graves that when they deteriorated were not replaced with stone, as these mens original headboards work. So their names are completely forgotten. Over the years, the area became disused land in

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