The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II (DeAngelis - WH) gift Its location enhanced its importance

Its location enhanced its importance during some of the Civil War’s most critical campaigns

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from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth

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led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II (DeAngelis - WH) gift Its location enhanced its importanceby Caitlin Galante DeAngelis When World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran gardeners married local women, raised bilingual children, and dedicated themselves to caring for the graves of their fallen comrades. When World War II swept through Europe in 1940, more than 200 War Graves gardeners were stranded in Nazi occupied