Listen Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2012 for the 150th anniversary of Fort Negley’s origin. Nashville’s Fort Negley was built for war, and construction began in 1862. Union officers considered the stone fortress a show of strength and military might. Instead, the fort’s enduring story belongs to the black laborers, both slave […]
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