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Hervey Dix was not a native of Missouri, but during his duties as a corporal in the early part of the Civil War, he became the first casualty of that war in Adair County, Mo. He was buried in Kirksville, and after the war, he was honored by having a post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Adair County named for him.
More than a century after 110 Africans were smuggled to Alabama on a ship, the descendants of the ship's financier are working toward reconciliation.
Descendants of the enslaved Africans brought to Alabama on the last known slave ship met with the family of the ship's financier to discuss reconciliation.
Aboard the Perdido Queen, News 5 went on an adventure to get an exclusive look at the site where the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S., landed 163 years ago.
From The Times: June 29, 1923The story of the loss of the Trevessa and the long and perilous voyage in an open boat of the Master, Captain Cecil Foster, the Ch