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New markers for eight Black Civil War soldiers

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Tony DeLuca plays Taps at the end of a ceremony at Dempsey Butler Cemetery in Camden, N.J. on Nov. 9, 2023. Eight new grave markers were installed in the historic Camden cemetery where soldiers who were members of the U.S .Colored Troop who served in the Civil War are buried. The marble tombstones are weathered and are difficult to read.
Tony DeLuca plays Taps at the end of a ceremony at Dempsey Butler Cemetery in Camden, N.J. on Nov. 9, 2023. Eight new grave markers were installed in the historic Camden cemetery where soldiers who were members of the U.S .Colored Troop who served in the Civil War are buried. The marble tombstones are weathered and are difficult to read.Read moreCharles Fox / Staff Photographer

Eight African American soldiers from the Civil War received new grave markers on Thursday at Butler Cemetery in Camden. Established in the 1800s by Dempsey Daniel Butler, it is the resting place of local U.S. Colored Troop veterans and other African Americans, including Butler, a philanthropist and abolitionist who fought for civil rights. Most of the inscriptions on the headstones of the Civil War soldiers were no longer legible.

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