Sculpture honors black Civil War veterans
(World News USA)

Speakers at the dedication Friday called Rutland´s newest sculpture a memorial to the city´s past and a marker of its future. The piece, the fifth in the series, depicts the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American units of the Union Army, which served in the Civil War and was depicted in the movie `Glory.` While the regiment was organized in Massachusetts, it drew recruits from all over the Northeast. Twenty people are recorded as enlisting in Rutland, though not all of them were residents of the city. The piece, sculpted by Don Ramey, of West Rutland, depicts a moment from the Battle of Olustee, in...