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Ex-Slave Who Became Civil War Hero Finally Receives Proper Military Burial

Nearly 100 years ago, racism prevented Black Army Pvt. Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry from receiving a proper burial when he died in 1917 in Dayton, Nevada, about 40 miles south of Reno, according to The Reno Gazette-Journal. Carnal, who lost a leg after being wounded in battle and whose heroics recently […]