[putupon]

"Those killed at Petersburg during the siege" were slaves forced to dig trenches, not soldiers.

That was awful nice of those Confederate ladies to honor the dead slaves then.< /sarcasm>

Go to the Petersburg battlefield visitor centor and check out the pics. See who the blacks with shovels digging the canal that was never finished were. Their uniforms look a whole lot like yankee uniforms and they were behind yankee lines and it was the yankees' canal to supply yankee troops.

[Illbay]

Doubt that Confederate ladies would have honored anyone with black skin.

Yet another legend, with no basis in fact.