U.S. Colored Troops re-enactor Norman Hill applauds the new statue honoring Black enslaved men who enlisted and served in the Civil War. The statue, by Ohio sculptor Joe Frank Howard, was unveiled Oct. 23 outside the courthouse in Franklin, Tenn.
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Tennessee city adds statue honoring Black Civil War soldiers
Four years ago, a deadly white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Va., led pastors in the Tennessee city of Franklin to call for the removal of a Confederate monument in their town square. A lawsuit and political maneuverings made that impractical, but a local leader of a Civil War history nonprofit had a different idea.
