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Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery : the African American history of America's most hallowed ground
- Title
- Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery : the African American history of America's most hallowed ground / Ric Murphy and Timothy Stephens.
- Author
- Murphy, Ric
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stephens, Timothy J., 1962-
- Description
- xi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery."
- Alternative Title
- Section twenty-seven and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery
- Subject
- Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) > History
- Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) > History
- Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)
- Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.)
- 1800-1899
- National cemeteries > Virginia > Arlington > History
- African Americans > Virginia > Arlington County > History > 19th century
- Freed persons > Virginia > Arlington County > History > 19th century
- Freed persons
- African Americans
- Cemeteries
- National cemeteries
- Slave records
- Enslaved persons > Emancipation
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
- Freedman's Village (Arlington County, Va.) > History
- Arlington County (Va.) > History
- Virginia > Freedman's Village (Arlington County)
- Virginia > Arlington County
- Virginia > Arlington
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Men Who Shaped Arlington -- A City under Siege -- Arlington plantation -- enslavement at Arlington -- Civil War -- Washington's Contraband -- health and Medical Care -- Freedman's Village -- National Cemeteries -- United States Colored Troops -- The Contraband Cemetery -- The Forgotten Union blue -- eviction -- Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Retribution.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-201
- ISBN
- 9781476677309
- 1476677301
- LCCN
- 2020006105
- OCLC
- 1057306165
- Author
- Murphy, Ric, author.
- Title
- Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery : the African American history of America's most hallowed ground / Ric Murphy and Timothy Stephens.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Stephens, Timothy J., 1962- author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-201