Re-Enactors Bring Little-Known History to Life

Published: Feb. 25, 2011, 5 a.m.

Civil War era re-enactors are nothing new for the region. But a group of all African-American women re-enactors is something special. The Female Re-Enactors of Distinction or FREED, recently visited and performed in the Clarksville, Tennessee and Hopkinsville area. The all-volunteer group is an auxiliary of the African-American Civil War Museum and Memorial in Washington, D. C. As Angela Hatton reports, their goal is to represent people who have been forgotten.