re: A monument to black Union soldiers goes up while white confederates goes down. Hmmm

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He spoke as if half the Union soldiers were black and the Union would have lost badly if not for the black soldiers.

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Kind of an odd statement to make considering that the two most popular anecdotes of participation of black soldiers in the Civil War were the battles of Fort Wagner (54th Massachusetts Regiment), and Fort Pillow in which in both cases the were slaughtered.