On March 13, 1865, with the main Rebel armies facing long odds against much larger Union armies, the Confederacy reluctantly approved the use of Black troops.
Judah P. Benjamin, a native Virgin Islander, was a Confederate during the U.S. Civil War, becoming its first States Attorney General before being promoted to Secretary of War and then Secretary of ...
Councilman Frederick Davis posted a live video reacting to a ceremony held Feb. 28 at a cemetery on Cemetery Road ...