BUTLER — Black soldiers who fought an important Civil War battle will be formally honored Saturday when the state dedicates a new park south of Kansas City in a pasture where the soldiers set up headquarters not long after being freed from slavery.
State to honor black Civil War soldiers in Missouri
Friday, October 26, 2012 | 4:48 p.m. CDT
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