An absolutely great name for an event featuring blacks who fought in the Union military during the war.
This event will be held this Saturday at Jefferson College in Natchez.
It will feature the story of Wilson Brown, a slave who escaped from the Carthage Plantation and joined the Union Navy where he was sent for training in New Jersey and won a Medal of Honor at the Battle of Mobile Bay. He is buried in the Natchez National Cemetery.
This is put on by the Friends of the Forks of Roads Society whose purpose is educating the public about the enslaved and free blacks in Mississippi who joined the Union Army and Navy.
There will be lots of other activities going on as well.
Great Name. --B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
