CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Cumberland County residents gathered at Mount Zion Cemetery in Monroe Township today to honor a fallen hero from Pennsylvania. The ceremony was to remember Colonel ...

Watch CBS News Local News Pennsylvania museum ensuring thousands of Black Civil War soldiers' legacies not forgotten By Natasha Brown, Bill Seiders June 19, 2025 / 6:24 AM EDT / CBS Philadelphia ...

He joined the 19th Pennsylvania Infantry the day before the April 1861 Confederate attack on Fort Sumter and later served with the 1st Corps D'Afrique Engineers and as a lieutenant with the 95th ...

Twenty-seven of his comrades in the 138th Pennsylvania Infantry had been killed at the Battle of the Wilderness near Fredericksburg, Va., that May, including five from his outfit, Company G.

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...