In a Veterans Day story that should make all Americans proud, a black Civil War soldier who fought for the Union finally received a veteran's grave marker for his service.
Henry Benjamin Noisette of South Carolina, who died in 1911, received a veteran's grave marker almost 100 years after his death on his final resting place in a black Charleston cemetery on Thursday.
Noisette escaped slavery and joined the U.S. Navy in 1862, serving on the USS Huron and fighting against Confederate soldiers in South Carolina and Georgia.
Researchers recently discovered Noisette's military record and a group of his relatives watched as the marker was unveiled during the Veterans Day ceremony sponsored by the African American Historical Alliance.
Cadets from the Citadel sang the Navy Hymn to close the ceremony that was attended by about 50 people.
The Noisette family has a website devoted to its family history and reunions they hold.
A slave escaping that brutal institution to risk his life fighting for that same country? Sounds like the makings of a movie to me.
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