"When Charleston fell, one of the first things those emancipated men and women did was to give the fallen Union [POW's] a proper burial.
They exhumed the mass grave and reinterred the bodies in a new cemetery with a tall whitewashed fence inscribed with the words: “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
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They exhumed the mass grave and reinterred the bodies in a new cemetery with a tall whitewashed fence inscribed with the words: “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
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3,000 Black schoolchildren carried bouquets of flowers and sang “John Brown’s Body.” The 54th and other Black Union regiments were there. Black ministers recited Bible verses.
- historian David Blight
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