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South Carolina businessman Van Hipp notes the American Battlefield Trust is working to preserve lands where soldiers died and ...
But by July, George Washington, a Virginia enslaver ... The experiences of Black soldiers during the Revolutionary War revealed a troubling contrast between the era's ideals of freedom and ...
May 24 event features new grave markers for Revolutionary War soldiers Boltenhouse and Wallace, who are buried at New ...
An African American man from Albemarle County who served in the Revolutionary ... soldiers who served in the war, according to the marker text. He joined a local militia unit by June 1775, and a ...
Nov. 11.-The Revolutionary war pension list was closed this morning with the death of Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, aged 93 years, the only surviving widow of a soldier of the Revolution, which ...