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Article:Originally Posted by civilwartalk
"How he was buried under a Confederate headstone remains a mystery.."
Maybe he served on both sides. Not that unusual.
CWi News: US civil war headstone altered
The headstone of a former American slave and Union soldier was changed after the original said he was a member of the pro-slavery Confederate army.More than 100 of Samuel Brown’s descendants and Civil War buffs in period dress gathered at California’s Vallejo Sunrise Memorial Cemetery for the dedication of his new headstone.CLICK HERE TO*READ*THE WHOLE [...]
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"How he was buried under a Confederate headstone remains a mystery.."
Maybe he served on both sides. Not that unusual.
Ghost,
Nope, the evidence points to the man serving in the Union army, not switching from one side to another.
Unless you have actual sources that show otherwise.
Unionblue
"The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
So who put the Confederate headstone there, and why?
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