This North Carolina Museum Debuted The First Sculpture In The State To Honor Black Civil War Veterans

By Rayna Reid ·Updated December 1, 2021

As Civil War monuments honoring Confederate soldiers are being taken down across the nation, the Cameron Art Museum (CAM) in Wilmington, NC decided to go the opposite route and erect a monument honoring the Black soldiers who fought in the Union Army during the war.

In November, CAM unveiled “Boundless,” a bronze sculpture featuring life-size casts of 11 African-American men from the United States Colored

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