Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Memorial to Honor Black Union Troops
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt took part in the groundbreaking for the city’s first African American Civil War Memorial. The memorial will be on a plaza created by construction of a subway stop in the Shaw neighborhood, one of Washington’s oldest black neighborhoods. It will have a three-foot-high, semicircular, curved stone inner wall holding stainless steel plaques with the names of the black Union soldiers and the 7,000 white officers who led them.
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