Negro Confederate Skirmishers at Chancellorsville

zburkett

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Orange County, Virginia
In the White Oak Civil War Museum in Falmouth, Virginia there is a display celebrating Black Confederate soldiers. Included is a document "O.R. - SERIES I - VOLUME XXV/1 [S# 39]" The heading is

April 27-May6, 1863-The Chancellorsville Campaign
No. 203.-Report of Col Peter H. Allabach, One hundred and thirty-first Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Second Brigade

One paragraph reds, "In obedience to these orders, t about 11 o'clock I advanced with these two regiments forward through the wood, under a severe fire of shell, grape, and canister. I encountered their skirmishers when near the farther edge of the wood. Allow me to state that the skirmishers of the enemy were negroes. Slight skirmishing going on until retiring."

The report is from Colonel Allabach to Brig. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, Commanding Third Division, Fifth Army Corps.
 
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