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Memorial honoring bravery of 54th Regiment returns to Boston Common Share Updated: 12:29 PM EDT May 27, 2021 Share Updated: 12:29 PM EDT May 27, 2021
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Show Transcript KAZAKIEWICH LIVE IN BOSTON WITH REINSTALLATION. ANTOINETTE, THE RESTORATION STARTED BACK IN 2019. TAKE A LOOK AT THE END RESULT, SHINING MEMORIAL. MUCH OF THE WORK IS NOT NOTICEABLE BECAUSE IT IS FOUNDATIONAL. STILL, THE MONUMENT THEY SAY IS NOW AS TOUGH AS THE MINUTE HONORS. ONE OF THE NATIONAL TREASURES THE MEN IT HONORS. ONE OF THE NATIONAL TREASURES IN AMERICA THAT RAISE THE IDEA OF WHAT WE WANT TO REMEMBER. THE VALOR OF THE SOLDIERS. THE VALOR OF THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT IS ONCE AGAIN ON DISPLAY ON THE EDGE OF THE COMMON AT THE CORNER OF BEACON AND PARK AFTER A MULTI-YEAR, $3 MILLION RENEWAL, A CEREMONIAL UNVEILING IS BEING HELD THIS WEEKEND, COINCIDING WITH THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCENE THAT THIS SCULPTURE DEPICTS, COLONEL ROBERT
Special to the News Martha Swan, founder/director of John Brown Lives!, speaks Saturday, March 27, next to John Brown’s grave. (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) From left, Curt Stager, Sandra Weber, Martha Swan, Aurora McCaffrey, Lavada Nahon, Martin Tyler and David Welch pose Saturday, March 27 at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid. (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
From left, Curt Stager, Sandra Weber, Martha Swan, Aurora McCaffrey, Lavada Nahon, Martin Tyler and David Welch pose Saturday, March 27 at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid. (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
LAKE PLACID On Saturday, March 27, 125 years after New York state designated John Brown’s farm as a historic site, John Brown Lives! held an event at the famous abolitionist’s grave to mark the occasion.
Introduction:
With the events that have taken place during 2020, it is important to look back over the events that have been pivotal in breaking down racial barriers. This discussion will investigate the numerous examples of black military service, with black Americans fighting in every United States conflict from the American War for Independence to the present day. It will also explore how the military valor of African Americans helped end limited martial involvement and segregated military service.
American Revolution to the Civil War:
Black service members have fought in every single American conflict. The United States Army History Office estimates around 5,000 warriors in the American Revolution were black.[1] These men served in the artillery (the most advanced branch of service during the period), the infantry, as laborers, and even musicians. One particular unit, the 1
By DANNY FREEDMAN | Special To The Washington Post | Published: December 28, 2020 It was an unusual request for the FBI. The military s National Museum of Health and Medicine was, in 2018, hoping the FBI would divine a face from an anonymous skull that likely belonged to an African American soldier a skull that had been punched through by a 1-inch iron ball from a Confederate gun. The soldier is thought to have been a member of one of the Civil War s first Black regiments, an iconic infantry whose hard-fought loss near Charleston, S.C., was depicted in the Oscar-winning 1989 film Glory. I desperately wanted to do it, says then-FBI forensic artist Lisa Bailey, who retired in 2019. I said: I ll do it at home, I don t care.