KRISTIN DAVIS: Steward Henderson was 6 years old the first time he visited the site of a Civil War battle. His mother went to church that Sunday in 1958. Henderson’s father took him to Fredericksburg Battlefield, where he climbed a ridge called Marye’s Heights and thought he was on top of the world. A class trip to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania two years later fortified what would be a lifelong love for Civil War history. But Henderson couldn’t have imagined then that he would one day don Union blue. Or that he would help lead a procession of rediscovery through Chancellorsville Battlefield, where 150 years ago this month black Union troops fought against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia for the first time north of the James River. On Saturday, beneath sunny skies and shade trees, Henderson marched with two dozen other re-enactors representing the 23rd Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops to the site of the engagement at what is today the intersection of Catharpin and Old Plank roads. ... READ MORE: freelancestar/2014-05-18/articles/36361/new-historical-marker-salutes-us-colored-troops/
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 11:22:25 +0000
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