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FollowIn 1867, former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of a newly formed organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest had been a slave trader before the Civil War; he was also the commanding officer during a battle known as the 'Fort Pillow massacre' in Tennessee at which some 300 black Union troops were killed in 1864. (Whether they died in combat or were killed after they surrendered is still a matter of dispute.)Now, in honor of the Civil War's 150th anniversary, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) are seeking to put Forrest on a Mississippi license plate. But the state government opposes it. When asked to comment on the proposal, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, told the Associated Press, 'It won't become law because I won't sign it.' Barbour's reaction is just one sign that things have changed since the South commemorated the Civil War's centennial in 1961. Back then, much of the South was still segregated — and many people, including Mississippi's then Governor Ross Barnett, were fighting to keep it that way.

State and local governments took an active role in Confederate celebrations, using them to promote their causes. When the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a group sponsored by the federal government, held its inaugural event in a Charleston, S.C., hotel, Madaline Williams, a delegate from the New Jersey legislature, was denied entry because she was black. For this year's anniversary, there is no such commission.And in February of this year, when a Jefferson Davis impersonator was sworn in on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol for a re-enactment of the Confederate States of America's 1861 presidential inauguration, Alabama officials stayed away. Similarly, a December 'Secession Ball' held in Charleston drew protests and a candlelight vigil by the NAACP.This year's Civil War anniversary caps a decade in which Southern institutions have struggled mightily with the racial undertones of their Confederate monuments.

In 2001 Georgia redesigned its state flag, shrinking the Confederate battle emblem that had adorned it since 1956. Six years later, it removed the symbol altogether. The University of Mississippi — the same school that endured riots when James Meredith became the school's first African-American student in 1962 — ditched its mascot Colonel Rebel, a plantation owner, in 2003. And last November, a federate appellate court upheld a Tennessee school district's ban on Confederate-themed clothing.As much of the South continues to distance itself from its racially divisive past, the organizations fighting to maintain the prominence of Confederate symbols are pushed further right of the mainstream. Nonetheless, the SCV plans several highly publicized events over the next four years, as various Civil War–related anniversaries come up. The club has 840 local chapters across 29 states, plus Europe and Australia. It was founded in 1896; aspiring members must prove direct relation to a former Confederate veteran in order to join.

The SCV openly denounces the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups that use the Confederate flag as a racist symbol. Former President Harry S.

Truman and Clint Eastwood are often cited as members.But even as the SCV rejects traditional symbols of racism, it provokes debate with its promotion of contentious Civil War leaders like Forrest. Lee has been replaced as the great Confederate hero by Nathan Bedford Forrest by these Southern white heritage groups,' says Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which investigates extremist groups. Lee owned slaves, Potok says, but 'he was very much a statesman, and at the end of the Civil War, he encouraged Southerners to rejoin the Union in heart and soul. Forrest was very much not like that. The fact that they want to honor him specifically says a lot about what they stand for.'

Chuck Rand, a member of the SCV, calls any assumption that the Forrest license plate is racist a 'knee-jerk reaction' by people who don't understand the 'real causes' of the Civil War. Or, as he calls it, 'The war for Southern independence.' But critics point out that slavery isn't addressed in these commemorations. The group's re-enactment of Davis' inauguration took place near Martin Luther King Jr.' S old Montgomery, Ala., church and the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955.

But during the event, there was no mention of the South's racial history.The SCV's controversial events often make the news, but its perspective on the war and its causes doesn't get much traction. In December, the History Channel refused to run one of the SCV's, which blamed the North for slavery, claiming that slaves were essentially forced onto Southern plantation owners. Another commercial, also refused by the History Channel, claimed that the Civil War was 'not a civil war. but a war in which Southerners fought to defend their homes and families against an aggressive invasion by federal troops.' 'Lincoln waged a war to conquer his neighbor,' Rand explains.

'In our view, he was an aggressor against another nation, just as Hitler was an aggressor against other nations.' Most people, Southern or otherwise, are not likely to agree with such an inflammatory statement, but the sentiment underlying Rand's assertion has deep roots. 'Coming out of the experience of the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, there was a sense of wounded pride and grievance,' says James Cobb, a history professor at the University of Georgia and the author of Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. But even if racism, intolerance and discrimination still plague the South — as they do the rest of the country — the sense of regional separateness on those issues has largely diminished. 'Time has passed,' says Cobb. 'To uphold the Confederacy in this way has become a fairly extreme position.'

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Extreme or not, the SCV isn't giving up the fight. The group pledges to advance its cause through parades, advertisements and the battle for commemorative license plates. The South may never rise again, Rand admits, but that doesn't mean it has to disappear completely. 'The North is a direction,' he says.

'The South is a place.'

Federal dead on the field of battle, Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaOver the years, we have built up an array of special online resources designed to assist with teaching the story of Gettysburg, but this summer, we’ve done some of our best work yet on this front. Our 2018 interns –Frank Kline, Becca Stout, and Cooper Wingert– have organized a series of fascinating posts that tackle less-familiar topics related to the 1863 battle, and the famous cemetery dedication which followed.Teachers and students can now learn first-hand many of.

Wingert provides links to diaries and other records that detail how the Army of Northern Virginia captured black residents in south-central Pennsylvania, treating them like fugitive slaves. One of the cases involved a free black man named Amos Barnes, who was actually later released from a Confederate prison in Richmond because of the intervention of two Dickinsonians.

This summer, Wingert also wrote about, which was part of the famous 1863 campaign, but has mostly been forgotten because of the immense scale of the battle which followed at Gettysburg. Wingert actually wrote a book about the Confederate approach to Harrisburg a few years ago, but now he has curated several primary sources related to the campaign, included several that have never before been available online.Our other interns focused on the story of the cemetery dedication in November 1863 and Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. And subsequent recollected accounts about how the short speech was written and received. Kline’s work was inspired by Gabor Boritt’s thought-provoking study, The Gettysburg Gospel (2005). Many teachers too easily embrace myths about the Gettysburg Address –that it was written on the back of envelope, for example, or that it was poorly received at first– and this post offers a helpful corrective. Stout’s post also provides an important supplement, especially for classes or families that might be visiting the Soldiers’ National Cemetery themselves. The story is far more complicated than you might imagine, beginning with the sad revelation that even though the Battle of Gettysburg occurred seven months after the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s endorsement of black soldiers, Union commanders still excluded black men from combat roles in the 1863 fighting in Pennsylvania.

“He said, in substance, Ninety years ago our fathers formed a Government consecrated to freedom and dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.” Centralia (IL) Sentinel November 26, 1863, from coverage of Lincoln’s Gettysburg AddressNinety years ago? Imagine being the Civil War-era reporter who did not believe that the phrase “Four score and seven years ago” was memorable enough to record in its exact language. Yet historian Gabor Boritt includes this passage from the Sentinel’s slightly botched coverage of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in his book, The Gettysburg Gospel (2006). Boritt uses the example as a way to highlight the surprisingly complicated story about how Lincoln’s brief speech at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery dedication was received in late 1863 and then how the memory of it changed 0ver the years that followed. Boritt’s book introduces readers to a host of primary sources, including numerous historical newspaper accounts, that show a wide range of reactions to Lincoln’s now-famous and universally-celebrated words. This post attempts to organize some of these sources for teachers and students to view themselves.

In addition, I have started to collect various post-war recollected accounts of the dedication ceremony, including some that Boritt does not feature, as a way to provide first-hand accounts of that memorable day on November 19, 1863.Local Reactions“How the president’s words were reported would impact how they were received. While phones can be a distraction in the classroom, with augmented reality (AR) they can help bring lessons to life and create an interactive learning experience. By simply aiming their phones at augmented images, students can unlock the personal stories of historical figures, triggering videos and other online content (called auras). Here at the, we are working to enhance our visitor experience and to model classroom applications through the use of AR.

You can learn more about the various uses of AR and how to create your own free augmented experiences in this instructional post.Downloading the HP Reveal appTo view the auras created by the House Divided Project, visitors and educators can download the free, create an account and follow the House Divided channel in HP Reveal. (House Divided content won’t trigger until you follow the channel). Once those steps are completed, simply open the app, select the blue viewer square located at the bottom of the screen, point your phone at images located throughout the studio and the app generates specific video content (auras) related to those images. An image augmented with a video about the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.Using Augmented RealityThrough AR, teachers can bring new experiences into their classrooms.

Below are some of the most innovative uses of AR. Augmented Portraits – At the House Divided studio, the walls are decorated with augmented portraits that trigger brief student-produced films. At right, check out this augmented portrait of President (Class of 1809). You can access all of the House Divided images with AR enhancements at the online version of our studio. Handouts/Facsimiles – Reproductions of historic photos, letters and newspaper articles enable students to connect to personal stories. Here’s an example of Lincoln’s famous from the 1864 election, augmented with a video by project director Matthew Pinsker.

Virtual field trips – The is already being used in schools. Google created a brief promotional video showing how students at an Iowa middle school using the app. The app is free, and can be downloaded and accessed by anyone with a Google account. Google Expeditions shows virtual images of sites accompanied by longer text explanations, available by tapping the bottom of your screen. Especially in classroom settings, Google encourages the use of a Virtual Reality headset for the best experience.

Students can place their phones into the headsets, known as, and experience a site. The Cardboard headsets are available for around $15.Creating Your Own Augmented Reality ExperienceAugmented reality is not only an effective teaching tool, but it is also free and relatively easy to learn.

Using the HP Reveal studio, you can upload images and augment them. When editing your image, you should use a variety of circles, eclipses and rectangles to mask the background of your image (see below), making faces and main objects easier for the app to recognize. Masks hide parts of the image, enabling the app to trigger augmented content (auras).Tips for masking images:. Identify and mask mundane objects/spaces in the background of your image.

Think of it as removing clutter so the app can recognize the image and trigger your content. For the example above, I masked the indistinct faces of the pursuers in the background, making it easier for the app to focus on the four main figures. HP Reveal is often color sensitive.

If your trigger image is in color, a black and white version (i.e., photocopies) may not work successfully. For the best results, convert an image to grayscale and then mask it. Finally, make sure you save and then share your aura. If you haven’t shared your aura, it will be marked private.After you have finished masking the image, click “Next” and upload your overlaying video or other content. Press save and then try viewing the image through the HP Reveal app to verify it works.For more guidance on how to mask images in the HP Reveal studio, see the following House Divided tutorial. The Shelling of Carlisle occurred on July 1, 1863, even as the Battle of Gettysburg raged to the south.Alabama soldier arrived in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 as part of the Army of Northern Virginia’s shocking invasion of Pennsylvania –the one that culminated with the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863).

While he was on brief occupation duty in Carlisle at the end of June, Private Watson spent some time talking to the president of Dickinson College (Herman Johnson), a man he then described in a subsequent letter as “an unmitigated abolitionist and a bitter enemy to the south,” with “principles as bad as Wm. H Seward’s.” Watson’s fascinating account from the occupation of Carlisle was not an isolated bit of first-hand testimony. While often overlooked in classroom studies of the great battle, the primary sources describing the days leading up to confrontation at Gettysburg offer rare and very teachable glimpses into the nature of the war and especially into a deeper understanding of the interactions between Confederate soldiers and Northern civilians.For this post, I have assembled available digitized primary sources from the, the, the and from my book, (2012). Featured below are accounts that describe a series of little-known skirmishes and events from the 1863 invasion, including the Confederate occupation of Carlisle. Of special interest are the stories of, a Dickinson professor who debated Confederate officers about slavery, and recollections from Dickinson alumni and Confederate officers and who were among the Confederate troops responsible for shelling Carlisle on the evening of July 1-2.

I created this post originally in the summer of 2018, but we will keep adding materials to it as they become available. Feel free to make your own suggestions or contributions using the comment box (“Leave A Reply”) below.Primary Sources – Skirmishes.

Union militia camped near Fort Washington, the defenses of Harrisburg. (Cumberland County Historical Society)Primary Sources – Confederate. Newspaper account. (14th Virginia Cavalry). (30th North Carolina Infantry)Primary Sources – Civilian. from Cumberland County resident. – Carlisle Herald account.

– James Sullivan account. – recruitment poster, July 3, 1863. Culver Family Correspondence – Hanna Culver’s detailing the occupation and shelling, and her brother Joseph Culver’s.

– (daughter of Dickinson College President Herman Johnson). – Carlisle civilian’s account. – son of Prof. Hillman, recalls the summer of 1863.

– Chambersburg civilian. – Carlisle newspaper account. – Carlisle civilian. – (son of Dickinson College President Herman Johnson).

Gooden headstone (Courtesy of Cooper Wingert)For the first twenty years of its existence, there were no black veterans buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. That famous military cemetery, where President Lincoln had spoken so eloquently about a “new birth of freedom,” was not integrated until 1884, with the burial of, an African American Civil War soldier from York, PA who had originally enlisted in Carlisle. Over the next few decades, the U.S.

Army interred at least five other black veterans in the cemetery’s Civil War section. The question is why? Were they buried there intentionally, to help integrate the “hallowed ground”?Congress authorized the enlistment of black men in the Union army with the, though President Lincoln did not lend his public support to this policy until the on January 1, 1863. Yet by the time of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, only some black regiments had been mobilized (as United States Colored Troops), and none of them were yet incorporated into the Army of the Potomac. 1 In addition, during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in June 1863, Union general Darius Couch, the departmental commander in charge of the state’s defense, actually turned away. 2 For these reasons, no African Americans fought officially at Gettysburg for either the Union field army or the local militias and thus there were no black soldiers to bury afterwards at the national cemetery when President Lincoln was present to help dedicate it on November 19, 1863. Gooden’s enlistment card (Courtesy of Fold3)In 1884, however, Henry Gooden, a black veteran who had died in 1876, was reinterred at the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg.

Private Henry Gooden does not seem to appear in census records, but his enlistment papers indicate that he was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1821, worked as a laborer, and stood 5’3″. Gooden enlisted in Carlisle in August 1864 for one year, where he was signed into the Union army by Provost Marshal, a graduate of Dickinson College. Gooden, who was literate, served in Company C of the.

3 The 127th USCT saw combat briefly near the end of the war and was present for General Lee’s surrender at. 4 Gooden survived the war, and actually mustered out of service from Texas in late 1865. He seems to have returned to Carlisle, however, where he died in August 1876. 5 However, on November 8, 1884, Gooden was reburied in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg in the U.S.

Regulars Plot, section D, site 30. 6 Local historian Deb McCauslin claims that the family of the white soldier buried next to Gooden then had his body removed in protest, though park historians have remained somewhat skeptical of that connection, arguing there is no documentary evidence detailing the motivation for the re-interment. Prager Headstone. Courtesy of Karl Stelly and Find a Grave.In 2012, Gettysburg military park historian D. Scott Hartwig wrote a fascinating about the discovery of a in the NPS archives depicting black army regulars burying one of their own at Gettysburg in 1898.

Hartwig identifies a total of four black soldiers who died from disease during the Spanish American War and were buried at Gettysburg in late 1898. These men were Clifford Henderson, Emmert Martin, and Nicholas Farrell, all of whom served as privates in the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Battalion, and Corporal Harry Prager, who served in Company H, 2nd Tennessee Infantry. Clifford Henderson’s Burial. Courtesy of Gettysburg National Military Park.Hartwig identifies the picture (featured right) as the burial of Clifford Henderson. 9 I found additional information about this story in various newspapers from the period.

According to a September 7, 1898 report in Cleveland, “Private Clifford Henderson, Company A. Ninth Ohio (colored) battalion, died of typhoid fever this morning in the Red Cross hospital. His body was sent home to Cleveland for burial.” 10 However, by September 9, the Philadelphia Inquirer was reporting that “this morning the body of Private Clifford Henderson, Company A, Ninth Ohio Battalion, whose home was at Springfield, OH, was taken to the Gettysburg National Cemetery for burial.” 11. Clifford Henderson died in 1898. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer.While there is little other information regarding these soldiers or the particular motivations for burying them in the Civil War section of the national cemetery, Find a Grave has solid entries on Gooden, Prager, Henderson, Martin, and Farrell that show pictures of their grave markers and explain the exact placement of their burial locations. 12 Prager was from Tennessee and served with a unit from his home state, but for some reason, he was buried in the Illinois section.

13 I was also able to find. Charles Young. Courtesy of the National Park Service and the US Army.some interesting information on the 9 th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Battalion, in which three of the soldiers served.

This was the unit headed by Col. Charles Young, a famous nineteenth century African American leader.

He attended West Point, becoming only the third black graduate of the military academy and later served as the first black U.S. National Park Superintendent.

14 According to a book by Brian G. Shellum, the 9 th Ohio battalion was in the nation’s press quite a bit during the Spanish-American conflict for “its superior discipline and training.” However, the battalion also experienced low morale, especially after their time at Camp Meade, the place where all three soldiers died before being buried at Gettysburg. 15The story of the final black veteran buried at Gettysburg is even stranger in some ways than the ones that brought Gooden or Prager and his 1898 peers to the cemetery. Steve Light’s 2012 blog post and James M. Paradis’s African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign (2013) help explain how Civil War veteran Charles H.

Parker arrived at the cemetery in 1936. 16 served in Company F of the 3rd United States Colored Troops. 17 Upon his death on July 2, 1876, he was buried in the Yellow Hill Cemetery, which became essentially abandoned. 18 Parker’s grave was rediscovered as a part of a restoration project and then reinterred at Gettysburg. 19Why these decisions to integrate the Soldiers’ National Cemetery? The newspaper record is almost completely silent.

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Hartwig argues that the four Spanish American War soldiers were buried there because it was the closest National Cemetery. 20 The men had been stationed at Camp Meade in Middletown, Pennsylvania, so the Gettysburg National Cemetery was just under 50 miles away. Creighton’s The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History (2005) argues that segregation within national cemeteries was a major issue for African Americans. She claims that local veteran Lloyd Watts, an African American sergeant during the Civil War, and the “Sons of Good Will,” a black fraternal society he co-created, fought for integration at the various local cemeteries.

Headstone for Charles Parker. Courtesy of the House Divided Research Engine.African Americans were permitted to partake in the burials of white soldiers, white soldiers often refused to assist in and attend black soldiers’ burials.

Creighton suggests that there was local segregation between the black and white communities in Adams County throughout the 1880s and 1890s. 21 However, the timing of Gooden’s burial in 1884 points to the beginning of the end of this segregation regime at least in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. As historian John R.

Neff argues in Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (2005), the burial of black soldiers in national cemeteries established them as “the first publicly funded integrated cemeteries in American history.” 22Neff assumes that Gooden’s burial was intentional, designed to insure that the “the color line of segregationwas between blue and gray, not black and white.” 23 Yet the odd stories of the scattered six black burials at Gettysburg and the near total lack of commentary on these developments in the national press, raise questions about this assumption. Does anyone have more detail, or new theories about how to interpret the halting story of integration at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery? Feel free to comment below and we will update this post as more information becomes available. Map showing burial sites of black veterans at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg (Adapted by Becca Stout)dEndnotes1 James Oakes, “The Emancipation Proclamation,” Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013), 378, 387.2 Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013), 291-293.

Google Books3 D. Scott Hartwig, The Blog of Gettysburg National Military Park, April 2012. WEB4 Brenna McKelvey, House Divided Research Engine. Scott Hartwig,6 Gettys Bern, Find a Grave, August 8, 2006. WEB7 Brandie Kessler, Evening Sun, November 19, 2013. Scott Hartwig,9 D. Scott Hartwig,10 Brian G.

Shellum, Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010). Google Books11 “Governor’s Day at Camp Meade,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, (September 9, 1898), 5. Newspapers.com Proquest12 Karl Stelly, Find A Grave Memorial, August 23, 2009. WEB13 Karl Stelly, Find A Grave Memorial, November 3, 2010.

WEB; Karl Stelly, Find A Grave Memorial November 3, 2010. WEB; Karl Stelly, Find A Grave Memorial, November 3, 2010. WEB14 National Park Service, May 21, 2018.15 Brian G. Shellum,16 Steve Light, Battlefield Back Stories, September 29, 2012.

WEB; James M Paradis, (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 107-109. Google Books17 Don Sailer, House Divided Research Engine. WEB18 Steve Light, Battlefield Back Stories, September 29, 2012. WEB19 Savannah Labbe, The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History, March 12, 2018. Scott Hartwig,21 Margaret S.

Creighton, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 217-218.22 John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 133.23 John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation, 134.Additional ReadingsPrimary Source DocumentsSecondary Source DocumentsGettysburg General Reading.United States Colored Troops.Ninth Ohio Battalion.Second Tennessee Infantry. Illustration of Confederate soldiers driving captured African-Americans during an earlier “slave hunt” in Maryland from 1862 (Harper’s Weekly, November 8, 1862)This post explores the fate of several local blacks as they faced either captivity in Confederate prisons, or enslavement elsewhere in the South. But at least one captured black resident, a man named Amos Barnes, was returned to freedom by Confederate officials because of the intervention of a network of Dickinsonians.On June 16, shortly after Confederate cavalry had occupied Chambersburg, the Southern horsemen were seen “scouring” the surrounding fields and countryside for not only horses, but African-Americans. How it grated on our hearts to have to sit quietly & look at such brutal deeds,” wrote resident Rachel Cormany in.

In Chambersburg alone, between 25-50 blacks were captured and shackled, many of them women and children. “I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle,” recorded Cormany. 2 In nearby Mercersburg, Dr.

Thomas Creigh (Class of 1828) helped to secure the release of Amos Barnes. (House Divided Project, Dickinson College)Barnes’s plea for help ultimately found its way into the hands of two Dickinsonians, who collaborated to secure his freedom. His letter first reached (Class of 1828) of Mercersburg, who wrote to another Dickinsonian, Rev. Moore (Class of 1838) of Richmond, asking Moore “to do something in their behalf to release them.” Moore paid a visit to Castle Thunder, and left convinced of Barnes’s freedom. He appealed to Confederate Assistant Secretary of War, John A.

Campbell, who on December 14, 1863, ordered the release of “Amos Barnes, a free negro from Pennsylvania upon grounds which appear to the Department sufficient to justify an exceptional policy with regard to him.” 7. Barnes and Lewis were held at Castle Thunder Prison in Richmond. (Library of Congress).Still, the strange story of Amos Barnes raises new questions. What were Confederates hoping to gain by imprisoning free African-Americans like Barnes? Southerners had long-held grievances about the flow of fugitive slaves into border states such as Pennsylvania, leading some historians to speculate that the “slave hunt,” was a reprisal.

It appears some captured blacks were indeed enslaved. In a, William S. Christian, an officer in the 55th Virginia, claimed to have been “offered my choice” of the captives, but declined “as I could not get them back home.” 8 Similarly, Lucy Buck, a Winchester, Virginia woman, recorded in her diary that her family’s fugitive slaves were captured near Greencastle and later recognized by a local Confederate cavalryman. Buck expected her family’s fugitives–a mother and her young children–to be returned to her family, while noting that male captives taken by the Confederate army “had all been sent to Richmond to work on fortifications.” 9Among those sent to Richmond were Barnes and another local black, Alexander Lewis of Chambersburg. Lewis was ultimately placed in charge of the culinary department at Castle Thunder, and his story survives in a collection of wartime stories of Chambersburg residents.

An African-American child seized from York was also held at Castle Thunder, and tasked with carrying messages and performing errands. 10 Historian Mark Neely counts at least 16 free blacks from Pennsylvania who were held at Castle Thunder. In prison records, Confederate officials consistently distinguished these captives as “free negroes,” indicating an awareness of their legal status even as they were being detained. Neely argues that Confederates held these free African-Americans as “civilian political prisoners,” with the aim of exchanging them for Confederate civilians or fugitive slaves. More recent research by David Smith suggests that while Barnes was freed in December 1863, many African-Americans remained in Confederate prisons well into 1864, and perhaps beyond.

Smith, drawing on Lucy Buck’s diary account and notes left by Confederate bureaucrats, concludes that captured African-Americans “had value to the Confederate hierarchy” as manual laborers. 11In the aftermath of Gettysburg, it was also apparent that some enslaved men from the Army of Northern Virginia had been left behind in Pennsylvania. A reporter for the New York Herald asserted that “among the rebel prisoners were observed seven negroes in uniform and fully accoutered as soldiers.” In recent decades, these words have sometimes been seized upon as purported proof of the existence of Black Confederates. However, contrary to popular misconception, these seven men were among the estimated thousands of camp slaves who accompanied the Confederate army into Pennsylvania. While the Confederate force numbered around 75,000 fighting soldiers on the eve of Gettysburg, historians estimate that as many as 10,000 slaves marched north with the army.

Non-combatants, these camp slaves filled important roles as officers’ servants, cooks and teamsters. According to Arthur Freemantle, a British observer traveling with Robert E. Lee’s army, “in rear of each regiment were from twenty to thirty negro slaves.” After the battle, many camp slaves were forced to tend to the wounded and dead. Elijah, the slave of Col. Avery, recovered and buried his master’s body after Avery was mortally wounded on the slopes of Cemetery Hill. 12Primary SourcesRachel Cormany’s.Thomas Creigh’sAmos Stouffer’s.William Heyser’s.Vermont Soldier Chester Leach’s from.

Amos Barnes was held at Castle Thunder Prison until December 1863. This notation by a Confederate clerk indicates that Barnes is to be exchanged under the next flag of truce. (Department of Henrico Papers, Section 11, Confederate Military Manuscripts Database).Notes1 Joseph C.G.

Kennedy, Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), 412,.2 Rachel Cormany, “Rachel Cormany Diary, 1863,” Valley of the Shadow Project, ; Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, PA, July 8, 1863, Valley of the Shadow Project, ; Jacob Hoke, The Great Invasion of 1863: Or, General Lee in Pennsylvania, (Dayton, OH: W. Shuey, 1887), 107-108, ;3 Philip Schaff Diary, June 16-19, June 25-27, 1863, in The Woman’s Club of Mercersburg, Old Mercersburg, (New York The Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1912), 163-165, ; Ted Alexander, “‘A Regular Slave Hunt’: The Army of Northern Virginia and Black Civilians in the Gettysburg Campaign,” North & South 4, no.

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7 (September 2001): 82–88, ; Steve French, Imboden’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign, (Hedgesville, WV: Steve French, 2008), 63-64, ; Captain John H. McNeill’s group of partisan rangers was temporarily attached to Brig. Imboden’s command during the Gettysburg Campaign. War Department. War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), Series I, vol.

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27, pt 2:291,.4 Jemima K. Cree, “Jenkins Raid,” in The Kittochtinny Historical Society: Papers Read before the Society from March, 1905 to February, 1908, (Chambersburg, PA: Repository Printing Press, 1908), 94,.5 Hoke, The Great Invasion, 107-108, ; Charles Hartman Diary, June 22, 1863, Philip Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary.6 “Discharged from Richmond,” Franklin Repository, December 23, 1863, Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers Database; T.V. Moore to Isaac H.

Carrington, November 1863, File 1025 C 1863, Letters Received by the Secretary of War, RG 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, National Archives and Records Administration.7 Thomas Creigh to T.V. Moore, November 10, 1863, Section 11, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series A: C.S.A.

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4 (August 2002): 44; David G. Smith, On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 188-194; Edward L.

Ayers, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, (New York: W.W. Norton, 2017), 45-49.8 “A Rebel Letter,” in Frank Moore (ed.), Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, 7:.9 Lucy Buck Diary, July 3, 1863, in Elizabeth R.

Baer (ed.), Shadows on my Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia, (Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 1997), 228.10 Jacob Hoke, Historical Reminiscences of the War; or Incidents which transpired in and about Chambersburg, during the War of the Rebellion, (Chambersburg, PA: M.A. Foltz, 1884), 144,.11 Neely, Southern Rights, 139-140; Smith, On the Edge of Freedom, 192-193; Creigh to Moore, November 10, 1863, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series A: C.S.A.

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Army, Department of Henrico Papers, 1861-1864, ProQuest History Vault Database.12 “Incidents of the Battle,” New York Herald, July 11, 1863, ; Arthur Freemantle, Three Months in the Southern States, (New York: John Bradburn, 1864), 234,. Paradis, African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign, (Toronto: The Scarecrow Press, 2013), 23-26, 72.