UTLER, Mo. -- Chris Tabor has a dream. Someday -- perhaps in the not-too-distant future -- what will be akin to an archaeological dig will take place 8 miles southwest of here, and human remains will turn up. Those bones, 137 years old, will belong to the first black combat soldiers killed in the Civil War. By Jim Fisher, Knight Ridder newspapers
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