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Isaac Cole, 32nd Regiment U.S.C.T.
Isaac Cole (? - 1889), 32nd Regiment U.S.C.T. (Essay written by Frank Hebblethwaite — Park Ranger, Hopewell Furnace NHS) Abraham Lincoln referred to history as the “mystic chords of memory”. Those...
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William H. Mathews, 127th Regiment U.S.C.T.
Yellow Hill Cemetery - Adams County, PA (Essay written by Debra McCauslin — For the Cause Productions, Gettysburg, PA) William H. Mathews of Adams County was born free in Pennsylvania in 1849.His...
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Charles H. Parker, 3rd Regiment U.S.C.T.
Parker's grave marker at Gettysburg’s National Cemetery (Essay written by Debra McCauslin — For the Cause Productions, Gettysburg, PA) Charles H. Parker died in 1876 and was buried at Yellow Hill...
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Front and Center: Some Who Served in the United States Colored Troops
Author Anita Wills Blog About her Civil War Ancestors “No officer in this regiment now doubts that the key to the successful prosecution of this war lies in the unlimited employment of black troops....
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William H. Carney at Fort Wagner
On May 31, 1897, the city of Boston erected a monument created by the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in honor of the 54th Massachusetts and its colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. The monument...
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Alexander Kelly and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm
Alexander Kelly was an African-American Civil War soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was born on April 7, 1840 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and worked as a coal miner prior to...
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Anita Talks Genealogy
Anita Talks Genealogy, is Genealogy from an African American Perspective. The show airs Friday nights from 8:00-8:45 pm (pst), on Blog Talk Radio. Each week we take on different topics which are...
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100 Voices
USCT picket, November 1864 100 Voices is one of the projects associated with the Pennsylvania Grand Review. The Pennsylvania Tourism Office selected 100 African Americans who fought in the United...
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Men such as Martin R. Delany, a longtime resident of Pittsburgh and the first black major in the Union Army, had life stories as inspiring as any in American history. Yet so many of the African...
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