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Concord to honor George Dugan, town s lone Black Civil War soldier

Wicked Local During the virtual meeting of the Concord Select Board  Feb. 22, the Board unanimously approved the installation of the George W. Dugan tablet at the base of Concord s Civil War Monument.  According to Concord resident and historian Rick Frese, it will be embedded in the existing pavers and cobblestones.  Cemetery Supervisor Tish Hopkins and Frese have collaborated on this project, an initiative that dates back to Frese’s initial petition to the Select Board in August 2014.  Hopkins and the bronze company designed the tablet and Frese wrote the inscription.  Who is George Dugan? Almost two years into the war, on Feb. 16, 1863, an advertisement appeared in the Boston Journal recruiting “good men of African descent” to join the newly formed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first Black regiment in the Civil War, according to Frese. Four days later, a 44-year-old Concord farmer and widower, George Washington Dugan, traveled to the 54th’s recruiti

Committee proposes updates, possible changes to Civil War statue

ALLENDALE TWP. Following months of division over a Civil War statue depicting a Confederate Soldier, the Allendale Township board heard the first report from a committee it formed to address a possible solution to tensions in the township.  The committee, consisting of several area residents, proposed three potential outcomes for the future of the statue during a meeting Monday, Feb. 22. The statue depicts a Union soldier and Confederate soldier back to back, with a a slave child kneeling in between them.  The potential outcomes: Replacing the statue depicting the Confederate soldier with an obelisk or column inscribed with phrases and viewpoints from the Civil War era.

It s time to rename government facilities named after Confederate war heroes

It s time to rename government facilities named after Confederate war heroes Rory E. Riley-Topping, opinion contributor © Getty Images It s time to rename government facilities named after Confederate war heroes What s in a name? Shakespeare famously asked in Romeo and Juliet, when writing about the path of the two star crossed lovers from rival families. Well, as it turns out, the answer is a lot, particularly when it comes to government facilities, such as those within the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that still bear the names of Confederate generals and sympathizers. Although from Juliet s point of view, that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; when it comes to military bases and VA hospitals, calling them by any other name would send an important message of unity and acceptance during a time of increased awareness surrounding racial inequality and the unfortunate prevalence of white

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