Clara Shorts Adams and Robert Adams conveyed a quarter-acre to the Falls Church School District of Fairfax County in 1898 for the purpose of educating African American children. The one-room "Colored School Building at Seminary" was the first . . . — — Map (db m296270) HM
Many former bondsmen and free black men enlisted when the
United States Colored Troops was formed in 1863. By war's end,
over 220,000 black soldiers and sailors had served in Union forces.
About 40 percent of the burials at Vicksburg National . . . — — Map (db m109473) HM
"The prize sought is either Richmond or Petersburg, or a position that will secure the fall of the latter." — Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, US Army
By the fall of 1864, Union armies under General Ulysses S. Grant were locked in a brutal . . . — — Map (db m257626) HM
The Vine Street Business District, located in Old Town, once played a vital part of the city's history. After the Civil War, the neighborhood emerged politically, economically and educationally. Many prominent African American citizens resided . . . — — Map (db m154243) HM
St. Nicholas Cemetery is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries associated with the historic African American communities of St. Nicholas, Philips, and Larsen/Pine Forest of South Jacksonville. Other associated community names include Spring Glen, . . . — — Map (db m220557) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties. In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here began . . . — — Map (db m8329) HM
In 1911, Cape Girardeau members of the Missouri Chapter of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, commissioned a memorial to the fallen soldiers of the City and County. Dedicated on May 30, 1911, the memorial . . . — — Map (db m236269) HM
By the Sons of Goodwill, a society of black men for the burial of the colored citizens of Gettysburg.
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Interred in this burial ground are 30 "United States Colored Troops" (USCT), Veterans of the Civil War, who were denied burial in the . . . — — Map (db m69156) HM WM
This building was built ca. 1896 by the David Hunter Post No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) The G.A.R., founded in 1866, was a fraternal society for veterans of the Union army and navy, with white and black posts. David Hunter Post was . . . — — Map (db m133383) HM
Throughout the occupation of Nashville, Federal gunboats dominated the Cumberland River. This made an overland attack from the south the Confederate States Army's most viable option. Late in 1862, the U.S. Army began constructing a complicated . . . — — Map (db m246961) HM
Peach Orchard Hill, also called Overton Hill, was the site of significant fighting during the second day of the Battle of Nashville on December 16, 1864. The majority of soldiers were from the 12th, 13th and 100th United States Colored Troops . . . — — Map (db m267710) HM
In June 1862 the Union Army established a headquarters in Jackson. The provost marshal's office located at the court house was the recruiting station for the Union Army. In May 1863, during the Civil War, over 100 African American men from Madison . . . — — Map (db m194031) HM
A tombstone can only tell so much about the life of a man. From the shape and standard design of the markers you see ahead, you can tell that two veterans of the United States military lie here in graves just outside of the wall of the Hazen Brigade . . . — — Map (db m82570) HM
A. Waterproof, Louisiana
Mile 381.0 AHP
This small community was moved four times due to floods and the towns caving banks. The original location is now said to lie in the Mississippi River. During its third washout, a newspaper reported . . . — — Map (db m115163) HM
After the Union victory at Fort Donelson, slaves escaping from nearby farms and iron foundries flocked to the area seeking freedom and protection. By March 1863 some 300 refugees lived here at the freedmen's camp that came to be known as "Free . . . — — Map (db m82948) HM
Born in Devonshire, England, on December 4, 1842, to William and Hannah Downing, James Downing immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in about 1850 with his family. On March 6, 1862, James enlisted for three years in the First Massachusetts Heavy . . . — — Map (db m201979) HM
Before and during the Civil War, educational opportunities in Rural Virginia were often limited. The wealthier families employed a tutor or sent their children to boarding academies such as the nearby Union Academy. In such schools students . . . — — Map (db m169313) HM
From 1863-1865, the property southeast of Columbia Pike and Courthouse Road was the stie of Camp Casey, a key training location for Black United States Army soldiers during the Civil War. The camp included five barracks, a hospital, stables, a . . . — — Map (db m314412) HM
On 5 May 1864, thousands of United States Colored Troops entered Culpeper County at Kelly's Ford, six miles southeast of here, marking the first time Black troops served alongside the Army of the Potomac. These men, including some who had escaped . . . — — Map (db m280444) HM
"It was a most mad enterprise, but it was ordered...It was the hottest musketry fire I was ever in. Our regiment melted under it. And we fell back sullenly-we were too exhausted and too proud to run!" Elliott Grabill, 5th United States . . . — — Map (db m32934) HM
After the Battle of Cold Harbor in June 1864, Grant and Lee shifted their armies to Petersburg; but Grant did not wish to abandon the Richmond front entirely. He had Gen. Benjamin Butler position a small force from his Army of the James here at . . . — — Map (db m193868) HM
Ordered to take Petersburg, Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith directed Gen. Edward W. Hinks’ division of African American soldiers to move from City Point toward the Cockade City. Hinks encountered unexpected Confederate resistance at Baylor’s Farm in . . . — — Map (db m86247) HM
Successful cotton plantation owners like the Daniells relied heavily on enslaved laborers. The Daniells were one of the largest slave owners in the state with
approximately 300 enslaved people at Windsor and over 800 enslaved people within the . . . — — Map (db m291115) HM
Incorporated in 1814 by the legislature of the Mississippi Territory, prior to Alabama's statehood, the town of Blakeley was envisioned by the founder Josiah Blakeley as a premier trading canter and a rival to Mobile as a port owing to its deep . . . — — Map (db m280482) HM
Thousands of refugee slaves came with the Union army into Helena and they continued to come. Helena became an island of freedom in a slave state.
The Union Army Recruits Freedmen
In the . . . — — Map (db m107912) HM
The African Union Church once stood on this site adjacent to the cemetery. The church was a branch of the original "Spencer Churches," founded by Wilmington's Peter Spencer in 1813. In 1835, five trustees of the church - Perry Reynolds, Noah . . . — — Map (db m244731) HM
Soldiers returned to the area during the Civil War. The Fort Scott served as a supply depot and an army hospital - the largest and most well-staffed hospital in the state of Kansas. Food, ammunition, and other supplies were sent in and out of the . . . — — Map (db m313436) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m113505) HM
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders’ hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families . . . — — Map (db m60164) HM
This hand-hewn log cabin was built in Aquasco, Maryland, around 1880 as a farm tenant house. This "one-up-and-one-down" design with one room and a loft was typically used for slave cabins during the early 1800s. By the late 1800s, it was the . . . — — Map (db m183969) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m21455) HM
Here you see a partial reconstruction of Camp Hoffman, the largest Union prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Built after the Battle of Gettysburg, it was planned to hold 10,000 prisoners. However, more than five times that number—52,000 in . . . — — Map (db m128950) HM
Isaiah "Uncle Zear" Fassett was born into slavery southeast of here in Sinepuxent in 1844. His owner, Sarah A. Bruff, released him from bondage at age nineteen on November 11, 1863, when the U.S. Army paid her $300 in compensation. That same day, . . . — — Map (db m15695) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m51130) HM
Civil War Wilmington Wilmington was a minor Atlantic port when the Civil War started and the U.S. Navy did little to secure it. In fall 1862, the Confederate Ordnance Bureau designated it as the port of entry for its blockade runners. At night . . . — — Map (db m223962) HM
Powhatan Beaty. Born in Richmond, Virginia. Powhatan Beaty moved to Cincinnati in 1849, where he spent the majority of his life. Beaty enlisted as a private in the Union Army in June 1863, and two days later was promoted to first sergeant, . . . — — Map (db m87543) HM
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes used by African American slaves during the early to mid 1800’s, to escape to the free states and Canada. One of the routes used by African-American slaves was South Mountain, where they . . . — — Map (db m202068) HM
Camp Saxton was established in 1862 near here as the recruiting and training depot for the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Later re-designated the 33rd United States Colored Troops, these were the first Black men to formally enlist in the United . . . — — Map (db m301271) HM
The black regiments that participated in the battle of Honey Hill were the 32nd (raised in Pennsylvania), the 35th (raised in North Carolina) and the roand (raised in Michigan), United States Colored Troops (USCT) and the 54th and 55th . . . — — Map (db m301326) HM
The Civil War (1861-1865) opened the door for opportunity and civil rights for African American Virginians, about 90 percent of whom were enslaved in 1860. The upheaval from battles and the federal presence in Alexandria and eastern Fairfax . . . — — Map (db m149734) HM
The first school for African Americans in Appomattox County began near here. Before the Civil War's end, educational opportunities in rural Virginia were often limited for White residents and practically nonexistent for African Americans, . . . — — Map (db m181152) HM
The earthen mound you see here is the Civil War remains of an 1864 mortar position built under fire by the 1st New York Engineers in September 1864. Men of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery brought 8-inch mortars here to engage Confederate . . . — — Map (db m288508) HM
The Union Army of the James under General Benjamin Butler came to "Dutch Gap" in the summer of 1864 to begin digging a military canal. The first regiment, the 169th NY Infantry and the 1st NY Engineers immediately took casualties from Confederate . . . — — Map (db m278809) HM
The three brick cabins in the field before you are tangible connections to the enslaved people of Rappahannock County before and during the Civil War. Many slaves escaped to Union lines here and elsewhere, and some former bondsmen served in the U.S. . . . — — Map (db m49451) HM
(south)In Loving Memory 1861-1865 Defenders of Natural Bridge Lest We Forget (east) This monument erected under authority of an act of the legislature of Florida of 1921 as a just tribute of the people of Florida to commemorate the . . . — — Map (db m157200) HM WM
(left panel)
Outbuildings
Operating an 850-acre slave plantation required numerous outbuildings. Col. Frederick Dent's enslaved African-Americans labored in these outbuildings and kept the farm self-sufficient prior to the Civil . . . — — Map (db m124991) HM
Dedicated to the memory of
The Tuskegee Airmen
761st Tank Battalion
The Buffalo Soldiers
In grateful tribute to all those
Black servicemen and women who
served so honorably and valiantly
in all of America's wars
from the . . . — — Map (db m106465) WM
During the Civil War, 217 was the headquarters of the L'Overture Hospital. It was named after Tousaint L'Overture — Hispaniola's (Haiti) slave revolt leader. Patients were African American Union Soldiers & “contrabands” (escaped . . . — — Map (db m74279) HM WM
The Thompson House
This antebellum home, constructed ca. 1847 by Benjamin Woodson Thompson (1809 - 1876), partner in the Forsyth and Simpson sawmill enterprise in Bagdad, is the best remaining Florida Panhandle example of a symmetrical Greek . . . — — Map (db m63182) HM
On June 27, 1864, Austin Gilmore of Tennessee fell, mortally wounded, in ferocious fighting near this wide field. But Gilmore held no military rank and no rifle. He held only a stretcher bearing a wounded soldier. An American of African descent, . . . — — Map (db m243772) HM
In March 1864, a regiment of United States Colored Troops (USCT) camping in Annapolis inspired William Evans, who was enslaved on this land, to self-liberate by fleeing Sandy Point to enlist in the 30th USCT. Evans was among 800 USCTs . . . — — Map (db m282041) HM
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander's hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families . . . — — Map (db m72089) HM
William Evans, a slave of Capt. Thomas Mezick, the owner of Sandy Point Farm here, enlisted in the 30th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, in March 1864. The 22-year-old, thereby, gained his freedom. He joined 122 other area slaves who had been . . . — — Map (db m72087) HM
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander’s hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and . . . — — Map (db m24540) HM
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders' hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and . . . — — Map (db m186732) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m8331) HM
Howard County native Decatur Dorsey was one of only sixteen African American soldiers to received the Medal of Honor for courage under fire during the Civil War. Sgt. Dorsey, of Company B, 39th United States Colored Troops, earned his medal at . . . — — Map (db m5756) HM
African American Civil War veterans constructed this meeting hall for Charles Sumner Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) in 1908. The hall is one of only two known to survive that were built for soldiers who served in . . . — — Map (db m156672) HM
This hand hewn log cabin was built in Aquasco, Maryland around 1880 as a farm tenant house. This one up and one down design with one room and a loft was typically used for slave cabins during the early 1800s. By the late 1800s, it was the . . . — — Map (db m6096) HM
Queenstown, like most of the Eastern Shore in 1861, was a slaveholding community, and the impending conflict was regarded with concern and fear. When war erupted, families were torn apart because of their conflicting loyalities. It was not uncommon . . . — — Map (db m3113) HM
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders’ hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and . . . — — Map (db m1000) HM
Private Shedrick Campbell Co. M. 2nd United States
Colored Cavalry Regiment
Post Commander
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S. let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder . . . — — Map (db m194808) WM
Isaiah Fassett was born into slavery south of here in Sinepuxent in 1844. On November 11, 1863, when he was nineteen, his owner, Sara A. Bruff, released him from bondage to enlist in Co. D, 9th United States Colored Troops. Bruff, who was loyal . . . — — Map (db m206342) HM
Side A: Oscar D. Boggess Homestead
Oscar D. Boggess (1832-1907) was born in Virginia, the son of a slave and her master. He and his family were granted freedom in the will of his father and master. The will was contested up to the United . . . — — Map (db m43861) HM
St. Paul's A.M.E. Zion Church, erected in 1917, is the third church to be used by Gettysburg's oldest African American congregation—founded ca. 1838 in a small frame building on nearby Franklin Street. Members of this congregation have long been . . . — — Map (db m130259) HM
There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves; nothing that reminds us of the ones who made the journey and of those who did not make it. There is . . . — — Map (db m213138) HM
In memory
of the 20,133 who served as
United States Colored Troops
in the Union Army
Dedicated 2003
Sculptor: Roy W. Butler • Model: William C. Radcliffe
Presented by: The African American Cultural Alliance • United Association . . . — — Map (db m198942) WM
Between 1861 and 1865 the Civil War claimed the lives of over 625,000 Americans. Few communities, North or South, were left untouched by the conflict's hardship and loss, including Nashville. Tentatively pro-Union before the war, the city was the . . . — — Map (db m178383) HM
In 1860, African-Americans — both enslaved and free — made up more than half of Franklin's residents, as well as half of Williamson County's population. When the Federal army arrived late in 1862, many slaves freed themselves by . . . — — Map (db m120385) HM
On March 24, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln told Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson, “The colored population is the great available, and yet unavailed of, force for restoring the Union.” In September 1863, Johnson gave permission to Maj. . . . — — Map (db m189735) HM
During the Civil War, Alexandria's population swelled with more than 20,000 enslaved African Americans fleeing Confederate territory for safety behind Union lines. Initially called Contrabands because they were considered "property" taken during . . . — — Map (db m127734) HM
On May 8, 1864, following the Battle of the Wilderness, troopers of the 9th Virginia Cavalry scouted through this region and captured several United States Colored Troops (USCTs) near Madden's Tavern. Private Byrd C. Willis of the 9th recalled, . . . — — Map (db m185516) HM
As you watch boats being launched here today, imagine the challenge faced by Union engineers tasked with constructing a pontoon bridge at this site on June 20th, 1864. Under the cover of night, and without alerting nearby Confederate pickets, . . . — — Map (db m216519) HM
"The busiest place in Dixie" City Point, Virginia, played a significant role in the final year of the Civil War. General-in-Chief of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters here on June 15, 1864. Union ships sailed . . . — — Map (db m131786) HM WM
"…they went forward with undaunted bravery!"
- Sgt. J. Payne 27th USCT
By 8:30 am, over the now wooded ground before you, nearly 4,000 black Union soldiers (known then as United States Colored Troops or USCT) . . . — — Map (db m184826) HM
The Third Union invasion was significant because it was the first deployment of African American troops in Florida by the federal government. The 33rd USCT (United States Colored Troops), formerly known as the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry . . . — — Map (db m143682) WM
Side 1
Beginning in 1909, Union Civil War veterans from all over the United States began to move to St. Cloud, many drawn by promotions in Northern newspapers. The first veteran to die in St. Cloud, Lucius L. Mitchell, passed away in December . . . — — Map (db m172100) HM
The Confederate "Army of Tennessee" that defended Dalton from November 1863 to May 1864 briefly returned here the following October. It was much depleted in both size and spirit. Their unsuccessful defense of Atlanta ended with its fall on September . . . — — Map (db m86563) HM
( Upper Left Section )
Welcome to the Knox County Veterans’ Memorial Park. The monuments that stand before you are dedicated to the memory of all the military veterans from Knox County. Most prominent is the “Soldiers and . . . — — Map (db m23581) HM
During February 1864, the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, Lorenzo Thomas, under the direction of the Secretary of War, Edwin L. Stanton, authorized the recruitment of African Americans by the Union Army in Kentucky. The 8th United States Heavy . . . — — Map (db m48462) HM
Nearby stood Camp Stanton, a Civil War-era recruiting and training post for African American Union soldiers. Named for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the camp was established in August 1863. Although black soldiers had served in the nation’s armed . . . — — Map (db m195735) HM
In June 1917, Judge James A. Pearce commemorated the Civil War soldiers of Kent County by erecting a monument to honor the patriotism and valor of a once divided, but now reunited country. The rough-cut and polished granite monument behind you . . . — — Map (db m186803) HM
Dedicated
In grateful memory
United States Colored Troops
"Once let the Black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there . . . — — Map (db m297141) WM
Eighty-eight African Americans from Mercersburg volunteered to defend the Union during the Civil War. At least 36 of those veterans lie in Mercersburg Zion Union Cemetery, established in 1876 by local Black citizens.
By 1850 Mercersburg had 26 . . . — — Map (db m44650) HM
Opened at a time when blacks and whites legally could not be buried next to one another, this cemetery is the final resting place for generations of African-American wives, mothers, daughters, husbands, and sons—including valiant soldiers. In 1863 . . . — — Map (db m215521) HM
"...I don't intend to lay down my gun till the war is done, and our brethren all get their freedom..."
-Sergeant Prince Rivers, First South Carolina Infantry
On August 25, 1862, General Rufus Saxton was authorized by the US War . . . — — Map (db m301270) HM
Across the road lies the grave of Elijah Wood, who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War and became a community leader after the guns fell silent.
Born into slavery in 1834 in Robertsville (now Oak Ridge), Tennessee, . . . — — Map (db m293575) HM
“A little distance from these barracks is a Negro village [Affricanna Town]. Those that are able to procure their own lumber are permitted to put up their own houses with little garden lots. The best class of negroes do this. Most of . . . — — Map (db m205379) HM
Companies A and F of the 41st United States Colored Troops (USCT) deployed as skirmishers (an expanded formation where soldiers are posted ahead of the main battle line to feel out enemy positions). On April 9, 1865, they crossed the field in . . . — — Map (db m292013) HM
Part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac occupied North Bend on June 14, 1864, en route to Weyanoke Point. Two days earlier, Union forces had disengaged from the Cold Harbor battlefield so stealthily that it escaped Gen. Robert E. Lee's . . . — — Map (db m267268) HM
Nearby were the homes of three Afro-Virginians who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Sgt. March Corprew, Co. I, 2nd USCT Cavalry, and his brother Pvt. Daniel Corprew, Co. D, 1st USCT Cavalry, lived on a . . . — — Map (db m282379) HM
(preface) Early in 1864, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all Federal armies, ordered advances throughout the Confederacy in the spring. On May 5, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler landed his Army of the James on Bermuda Hundred . . . — — Map (db m164324) HM
Shortly after the Army of the James landed in Bermuda Hundred, a field hospital was established here at Point of Rocks. The hospital originally consisted of tents set up in the orchard around the Strachan House. The tents were 50 feet long and . . . — — Map (db m109377) HM
"Petersburg at that hour was clearly at the mercy of the Federal Commander who had all but captured it"
Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard on the June 15th attack at Petersburg.
On June 9, 1864, as Grant prepared to shift his army . . . — — Map (db m180819) HM
In 1867, African Americans built Galloway United Methodist Church and established the historic cemetery you are facing. According to local tradition, before and during the Civil War enslaved people on the Dulany plantation secretly worshiped in the . . . — — Map (db m72029) HM
You are standing across the street from land that Harriet Brice, a “free woman of color,” purchased in 1864. Together with her husband, George Brice, she struggled to farm the property during the Civil War. Although she had gained her freedom . . . — — Map (db m206332) HM
The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 22nd regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT) seized this point on May 5, 1864, in advance of Union Gen. Benjamin Butler's force sailing up the James River. As the USCTs landed here, . . . — — Map (db m149551) HM
During the Civil War this church served as a signal station for both the Confederacy and the Union. On May 5, 1864 Col. Samuel A. Duncan’s brigade of United States Colored Troops (4th, 5th, and 6th U.S.C.T.) occupied City Point and the signal . . . — — Map (db m19604) HM
