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This week’s new video on the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Sarah Wooton, Chief Curator, discussing the African-American 371st Infantry Regiment that served in WWI. The 371st, draftees mainly from South Carolina, trained at Camp Jackson before serving with the French during the war. The Regiment, and the museum, will be featured on PBS's History Detectives July 7 at 9:00.

The museum’s site video can be accessed by visiting www.crr.sc.gov/videos or http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added regularly.

Founded in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.