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The Jewish women who kept Confederate graves from disappearing

After the Civil War, Jewish women in Richmond organized to care for the graves of Jewish Confederate soldiers.

Rocky Mount unveils first Virginia monument honoring black Civil War soldiers

"One of our members, Glenna Moore, discovered that there were some black men born in Franklin County who became United States ...
Richmond Register

Battle of Richmond veteran’s grave destroyed; new marker placed in his memory

A soldier who fought at the Battle of Richmond now has something he never had previously; a headstone. Colonel Thomas H.
Richmond Times-Dispatch

The death of Richmond's last Confederate veteran, 84 years after war's end

On Aug. 6, 1949, George Bannister, Richmond’s last Confederate veteran, died a little over a month after celebrating his ...