He began serving in the Confederatearmy on July 1, 1864 ... would not admit him to a VA hospital because he was not a United States veteran. The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Gov.
The first Black Army officer elevated to lieutenant general, he lived to see a military post named for a slaveholding Confederate general ... arms against the United States, the commission noted ...
GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years ...