From the July 27th Jackson Sun.
The headstone of a former slave and Union soldier in Valleja, Ca., no longer says that he was in the Confederate Army. The article says that for years, his family failed to recognize the mistake.
Samuel Brown, Jr., was born into slavery in Georgia in 1833. When he was emancipated, he joined the Union Army where he served for one year.
It is not known how he came to be listed as a Confederate.
A cemetery employee noticed the mistake and contacted the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War who corrected the mistake.
It's About Time. --B-R'er
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