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Their Quiet War: The Black Soldiers’ Fight for Freedom and Memory in the Department of the South
Thursday, February 20
6PM
Black Civil War soldiers entered military service through various means since 1862, and did so with the hopes of freedom, equality, and citizenship on the other end of the conflict. But at what cost? Through the stories of those who served in the US Army’s Department of the South, explore the war and its effect on soldiers who fought and endured wartime trauma on the battlefields of Fort Wagner, Honey Hill, Olustee, and beyond.
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