The Cemetery Monument Hidden in Plain View: A Study of Black Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Buried at the Philadelphia NationalCemetery (Soldiers of the ... and sailors at the Philadelphia National Cem)

by Edward G. McLaughlin

The Philadelphia National Cemetery contains the remains of over 1,000 black Civil War soldiers and sailors buried in segregated sections of the Cemetery. The Philadelphia National Cemetery is within one mile of the original location of Camp William Penn, the first and largest training camp for United States Colored Troops (USCT) in the United States. Hundreds buried in these segregated sections were soldiers that died during their training at Camp...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 107693398X
• ISBN13: 9781076933980
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"