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They gathered not to celebrate a battle or to protest an injustice, but to bury the dead. In the waning weeks of the war, 257 Union prisoners had died there—of disease, of neglect, of despair—and been cast into a mass grave behind the grandstand. Now, the people who had once been enslaved came to raise them up.
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Image: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Students Saluting the Flag at the Whittier Primary School, circa 1899-1900.