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9 LaFayette Township. 10 Leaf River Township. ... Cemetery in Marion Township, Illinois. Stillman's Run Battle Site, Stillman Valley; Mouth Of Stillman Cemetery ...
The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery at 1001 S. Washington St. in Alexandria, Virginia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 2012. [1] It was established in February 1864 by the Union military commander of the Alexandria District for use as a cemetery for the burial of African Americans who had escaped slavery ...
Seymour B. Durst's collection included Brief history of the New York National Freedmen's Relief Association : to which are added some interesting details of the work together with a brief view of the whole field, and the objects to be accomplished, concluding with the fourth annual report of the association for 1865, with statement and appeal ...
Freedmen's Cemetery (or Freedman's Cemetery) may refer to: Freedmen's Cemetery (Louisiana), St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana; Freedman's Cemetery (Texas), also known as Freedmen's Cemetery, Dallas, Texas; Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia; Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina; Freedmen's Mission Historic ...
The couple, ever mindful that their status as free could be called into question, secured fresh copies of freedmen's papers before an Alton court on November 28, 1844. [4] The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [4] [10] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery ...
Located adjacent to the Chalmette National Cemetery, and within the boundaries of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, is the site of the defunct Freedmen's Cemetery, a four-acre African American burial ground that had been established by the federal government in 1867 to inter the remains of formerly enslaved men, women and ...
From left, Samantha Dorm, Jenny De Jesus Marshall and Tina Charles were honored with the Legion of Honor Award for living the values of the Four Chaplains May 8, 2024.
This cemetery was named in honor of General John Sedgwick, a Civil War Officer. In the year 1905, a group of women, wives, daughters, and nieces of Civil War Veterans, organized the General Sedgwick Circle, No. 28, Ladies of the G.A.R., Women's Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic.