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See Alexander T. Augusta Gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Alexander T. Augusta was the U.S. Army's first black physician, the United States' first black hospital administrator (Freedman's Hospital, D.C.) and its first black professor of medicine (Howard University). A graduate of Canada's Trinity Medical College, he was commissioned as a major during the Civil War, serving as regimental surgeon of the 7th Infantry of the U.S. Colored Troops. Promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in 1865, Augusta became the highest-ranking African American officer of the Civil War. He is laid to rest in Section 1.
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