The Detroit Historic Civil War Society honored veterans at an observance ceremony at Elmwood Cemetery Monday, with a special emphasis on Civil War soldiers who fought in the 102nd U.S. Colored Troops.
"I was positioned on that hill," Badri Abou Diab remembers, looking across what was once no man's land in a bitter civil war. "We used ... and summer camps, the veterans offer first-hand accounts ...
They added markers on the graves of the eight Black Civil War veterans buried there, replaced the stolen monument with a new one outside the cemetery gates and routinely switch out the American ...