'They chose to serve': United States Colored Troops members honored at City Cemetery
WILKES-BARRE — City Cemetery was the site of a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday afternoon, during which local United States ...
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Marker will recognize graveyard at former AME Church site in Westtown
WESTTOWN—Township Supervisors voted March 3 to erect an historic marker to recognize a Black cemetery at the former site of the 1817 Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal church. At least 140 church ...
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History walk retraces path of United States Colored Troops
The walk retraced the steps of 1,800 United States Colored Troops who marched along what is now known as Federal Point Road in 1865, a route that leads to the Cameron Art Museum. Jones explained ...
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History with ‘Hud’: 160 years since Battle of Forks Road was fought on Cameron Art Museum grounds
An up-and-coming black sculptor, Stephen Hayes, was chosen to create a monument featuring nine members of the United States Colored Troops marching into battle. The sculptures, entitled ...
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Reported Mutiny Among the Colored Troops--The Cavalry Refuse to go South--They Quietly Submit to Being Disarmed.
The Colored Cavalry B[???]ade, consisting of the First, Second and Fifth United States Colored Cavalry ... hitherto been employed in transporting troops. To make everything o[???] ...
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Tour Fort Pulaski National Monument
During the Civil War, it was occupied by Confederate troops until being ... "All persons of color lately held in involuntary service by enemies of the United States in Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur ...