Many negative impacts were perpetuated upon people of color because the southern part of America chose to ignore its harmful history. In her poem, Pilgrimage Vicksburg Mississippi, Trethewey echoes the dark past of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The poem discusses the first Louisiana Native guard, which was one of the very first black regiments in the union army and the massive loss of life that occurred there during the Civil War. Much like in her poem, Southern History, the sacrifices of these men and loss of life was not as documented as most of the Civil War was in regards to white soldiers. This gruesome part of history was written out, the statues were never erected, and the stories were buried in the streets that “must have seemed like catacombs
