Edwina W. Lindsey, a member of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, looks at graveside marker at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. Nearly 175 former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War but were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery were honored on Memorial Day. A plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry will be placed graveside. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
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