Central Pennsylvania African Americans in the Civil War


		The Civil War affected the African American community in central Pennsylvania in many ways. Confederate invasions caused upheaval in all communities as free citizens, former fugitive slaves, and "contrabands," slaves who fled north as Union troops liberated their homes, scrambled to get away from advancing Rebels who they feared would capture them and take them south into slavery.
Study Areas: Slavery Anti-Slavery Free Persons of Color Underground Railroad The Violent Decade US Colored Troops Civil War Year of Jubilee (1863)	Others contributed to the war effort in many ways: by raising aid for soldiers, working in camps and hospitals, recruiting men for the new African American regiments, and by enlisting to serve in those regiments. These pages will document the varied contributions of African Americans to the war effort in central Pennsylvania. Burial Sites / Pennsylvania Connections for African American Troops:
	By cemetery Eastern Light Cemetery, Altoona, Blair County Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg Greenlawn Cemetery, Chester Twp, Delaware County Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County Lebanon Cemetery, Chambersburg, Franklin County Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County Lincoln Cemetery, Penbrook, Dauphin County Lost Creek Presbyterian Church, Fayette Township, Juniata County Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County Millerstown Memorial Cemetery, Millerstown, Perry County Mountain Green Cemetery, Shippensburg North Queen Street/Locust Grove Cemeteries, Shippensburg Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County Tidioute Cemetery, Tidioute, Warren County Union American M.E. Cemetery, East Fallowfield, Chester County Upper Allen African American Cemetery, Cumberland County Zion Union Cemetery, Mercersburg, Franklin County	By regiment 1st US Colored Cavalry 2nd US Colored Cavalry 2nd USCI 3rd USCI 4th USCI 6th USCI 7th USCI 8th USCI 10th USCI 11th USCI 20th USCI 22nd USCI 24th USCI 25th USCI 29th USCI 30th USCI 32nd USCI 37th USCI 39th USCI 41st USCI 43rd USCI 45th USCI 89th USCI 127th USCI Southard's Company, USCI State and misc 29th Connecticut 5th Massachusetts Cavalry 54th Massachusetts 55th Massachusetts Other Naval Service
	History Harrisburg men in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Mercersburg Men in the Civil War List originally published in Old Mercersburg (1912) with notes by the Afrolumens Project. A Page from Harrisburg History Grand Review of Colored Troops Documents Recruitment poster, Philadelphia, July 1863 Letter from Ord. Sgt. Levi R. Chaplin, 6th USCT Application for Burial of Deceased Soldier Richard Johnson Funeral notice for T. Morris Chester T. Morris Chester Tombstone Rededication Obituary of Henderson Brown, Co. D, 41st USCT Links African American Civil War Veterans of Shippensburg, PA Locust Grove Cemetery, Shippensburg Black Civil War Veterans From Biglerville? Camp William Penn and Pennsylvania USCI regiments Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System -- NPS Coatesville USCT Soldiers in East Fallowfield Cemetery Queries Grand Review of Colored Troops, Harrisburg, 1865 Events USCT Pennsylvania Grand Review of Colored Troops November 2010 Event pics from Afrolumens Event pics from Tony O'Neal Official Site here: http://www.visitpa.com/grandreview/ more: here Pennsylvania Grand Review Dickinson College Site
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