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DATE: Wednesday, September 11, 1996          TAG: 9609130168
SECTION: NATL/INTL                PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: ARLINGTON, VA. 
SOURCE: MICHAEL KILIAN CHICAGO TRIBUNE 

'COLORED' SOLDIERS HONORED

"It is overdue," but the service of hundreds of thousands of black men and boys in the Civil War was recognized Tuesday, and a monument is in the works.

After 131 years of being deliberately ignored and then unjustly forgotten, the service of 215,000 American soldiers and sailors was officially recognized Tuesday in somber sunrise ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Please see microfilm for complete text.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  1.  Re-enactors of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry 
          Regiment stand at attention during Tuesday's ceremonies.  color  AP
          2.  Etta Daniels of St. Louis, with Crynell Tiger Gaines of Lawton, 
          Okla.,  behind her (man at center is unidentified) talks part in the
          ceremonies.  color