Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.”The Daughters of the Confederacyhas placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance—each Confederate soldier’s name raised hardin bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards—2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx.What is monument to their legacy?All the grave markers, all the crude headstones—water-lost. Now fish dart among their bones,as we listen for what the saves intone.Only the fort remains, near forty feet high,round, unfinished, half open to the sky,The elements—wind, rain,—God's deliberate eye."Native Guard" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.