{"id":82,"date":"2010-08-25T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/grandreview\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:20:37","slug":"us-colored-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/08\/25\/us-colored-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"US Colored Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_724\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HD_4USCinfantryDetail.preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-724\" class=\"size-full wp-image-724   \" title=\"Company E, 4th USCT\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HD_4USCinfantryDetail.preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HD_4USCinfantryDetail.preview.jpg 640w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HD_4USCinfantryDetail.preview-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Company E, 4th USCT<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over 180,000 black men fought for the Union army during the Civil War.\u00a0 Most of them served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) which\u00a0 came into existence after the Emancipation Proclamation finally provided presidential endorsement for the much-discussed proposals for arming free blacks and former slaves in what had become the great conflict over slavery.\u00a0 This section provides information on how to learn about the evolution and experiences of the USCT in places such as Camp William Penn (pictured above), the great training ground in historic La Mott (Cheltenham, Pa) where more than 11,000 black\u00a0 soldiers mobilized for service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 180,000 black men fought for the Union army during the Civil War.\u00a0 Most of them served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) which\u00a0 came into existence after the Emancipation Proclamation finally provided presidential endorsement for the much-discussed proposals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/08\/25\/us-colored-troops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-colored-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}