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For this Concord class, history unfolds right in the middle of their town âHe wasnât asked to join the war. He joined himself and tried to help the country⦠That was really cool.â By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated April 19, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Sydney Holloman-Pressley with her students at the Willard School, where they conducted research that led to Concord s decision to honor George Washington Dugan, the town s sole Black Civil War soldier.Sydney Pressley/Willard School CONCORD â As they sat at their fifth-grade desks here at Willard Elementary School, what struck these kids in this history-rich town was the essential unfairness of it all. ....
CONCORD During Monday s virtual meeting of the Select Board, 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 recruit ....
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 ....