Edward,

This is the site to post items from the Civil War that don’t fit into the other board categories, is it not?

A historical reference, no unseen conspiracy, as you suggest. Just a small insight of the men & women,chaplains, priests & rabbis, who went onto the battlefields bring comfort and hope to soldiers. Chaplains, priests & rabbis also served as hospital corpsmen in the U. S. Armed Forces since the American Revolution.

I guess you have not head of AME Churches. Little Ebenezer Methodist Church founded in 1827, by negro (Freemen) members of Ebenezer Methodist Church, now, located at Fourth & D streets, Washington City District of Columbia. Little Ebenezer Methodist Church was the site of the first negro public school as called for by Congress. In May, 1862 Congress passed an act requiring the establishment of public schools for negro children of liberated slaves.

A review of Virginia Commonwealth laws regarding schools & churches going back to colonel days of the Commonwealth might be of interest for you on the (facts) of segregation.

Happy Trails!
Tom Martin

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