LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY
LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
UNITED STATES COLORED CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
The Heroes of Locust Grove Cemetery
Submitted by
Charles (Ben) Hawley
Program Director,
DC Civil War Cadet Academy
Washington, DC
Office: 301-942-2804
Cell: 301-706-8027
http://www.3dpublishing.com/academy/
Twenty-five Civil War veterans of the United States Colored Troops are buried on the grounds of Shippensburg�s Locust Grove Cemetery. These men include:
John Barnes | 3rd Regt, USCT |
John Boles | 43rd Regt, USCT |
Cyrus Bushrod | 127th Regt, USCT |
Wilson Carter | 25th Regt, USCT |
Samuel Cotton | 2nd Cavalry, USCT |
Marshall Dixon (Sergt) | 32nd Regt USCT |
Henry Galloway | 55th Mass. Inf |
Robert Green | 127th Regt, USCT |
James Holiday | 127th Regt, USCT |
John Hinton | 127th Regt USCT |
Philip L. Holmes | 127th Regt USCT |
George Landy, (Cpl) | 22nd Regt USCT |
Joseph Lane | 22nd Regt USCT |
Levi Richardson | 127th Regt USCT |
Joseph Rideout | 22nd Regt USCT |
Joseph Robinson | 25th Regt USCT |
Washington Robinson | 24th Regt USCT |
James H. Shirk | 55th Mass Inf. |
John Shirk | 54th Mass Inf. |
John Y. Smith | 25th Regt USCT |
Joseph Stephenson | 22nd Regt USCT |
Michael Wilson | 45th Regt USCT |
Paris Jacob Wilson | USCT |
Daniel Wright (Sergt) | 24th Regt USCT |
Samuel Wright (Sergt) | 127th Regt USCT |
Additionally, the cemetery contains eighteen other African-American veterans who served in conflicts spanning from the Spanish-American war through Vietnam. These men served bravely and risked their lives for their country.
These silent heroes now need your help. For over a hundred years, the Locust Grove Cemetery and the burial places of these veterans rested in the midst of Shippensburg�s oldest Black neighborhood. However, in recent years, the North Queen Street neighborhood has become dominated by student rental properties, apartment buildings, and fraternity houses. With these changes to the neighborhood has come increased foot traffic through the cemetery, as well as the knocking over of tombstones. These veterans deserve better.
We are asking members of the reenacting community to please join us in a dedication and memorial program on May 28, 2007. Program is scheduled to begin at 10:00 am. For more information contact Ben Hawley, 29thconn@comcast.net
Charles (Ben) Hawley
Program Director,
DC Civil War Cadet Academy
Washington, DC
Office: 301-942-2804
Cell: 301-706-8027
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