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Title: Barracks Camp Wm. Penn. near Phila
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
1864
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
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Description: A view of the barracks at Camp William Penn in La Mott, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are several long, low buildings, separated from a road in the foreground by a white picket fence.
Historical information sent by Rita Roberts: "Camp William Penn. Here was Pennsylvania's only training camp for African American soldiers -- and the largest of 18 in the nation during the CW. Comprising over 10,000 men, 11 regiments of U.S. Colored Troops were trained here: the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 2nd, 24th, 25th, 32nd, 41st, 43d, 45th, and 127th. Recruits first arrived on June 26, 1863; many were to fight in Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, & elsewhere. The camp closed August 14, 1865."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: photCL 306 (50)
397571
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/4952
Subject: Camp William Penn (La Mott, Pa.)
Military camps--Union--Pennsylvania--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities
Place: La Mott (Pa.)
Source: John P. Nicholson Collection: Civil War Photographs.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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