Three miles from the pristine marble rows of Arlington National Cemetery lies the grave of Army Private Hezekiah Dorsey, my great great grandfather...
At 26, Hezekiah banded together with men enslaved at their Montgomery County plantation to escape enslavement, cross the Potomac River and join the United States Colored Troops at Camp Casey in Arlington Virginia. washingtonpost.com/news/house-div…
He did not know then his regiment would serve in what would be one of the last and most defining battles of the Civil War, the battle of Petersburg, Virginia.