{"id":140,"date":"2010-07-23T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-07-30T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:45:00","slug":"locust-grove-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/07\/23\/locust-grove-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Locust Grove Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/07\/4-Locust-Grove-Cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-141\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/07\/4-Locust-Grove-Cemetery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/07\/4-Locust-Grove-Cemetery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/07\/4-Locust-Grove-Cemetery-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32992\" target=\"_blank\">Locust Grove Cemetery <\/a>has been known as the \u201ccolored cemetery.\u201d\u00a0 Edward Shippen Burd, the grandson of the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/19492\" target=\"_blank\">Shippensburg<\/a>, gave the land to the town\u2019s African-American population in 1842.\u00a0 The land became a slave burial ground and was also home to Shippensburg\u2019s first African-American church.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because the African-Americans owned the land, this site became a refuge for run-away slaves in the period of time before the Civil War.\u00a0 In 1861, the cemetery was officially segregated and continued to be so for the next 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six free blacks from Shippensburg fought for the Union in the Civil War and are buried in the Locust Grove Cemetery. One group of Shippensburg brothers, the Shirks, fought for the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry because it was the first Union regiment to allow African-Americans to fight.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33639\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a> and James are buried in Locust Grove, while Casper is buried in Chalmette National Cemetery in New Orleans. John spent most of his time with the 55<sup>th<\/sup> Massachusetts in South Carolina. James was involved in the Fort Wagner Campaign and Sherman\u2019s \u201cMarch to the Sea\u201d with the 54<sup>th<\/sup> Massachusetts. He was honorably discharged in 1865. Casper probably fought with the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Massachusetts Cavalry, but died on a boat and was buried in New Orleans surrounded by 12,000 Union soldiers who never made it home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locust Grove Cemetery has been known as the \u201ccolored cemetery.\u201d\u00a0 Edward Shippen Burd, the grandson of the founder of Shippensburg, gave the land to the town\u2019s African-American population in 1842.\u00a0 The land became a slave burial ground and was also home to Shippensburg\u2019s first African-American church.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because the African-Americans owned the land, this site became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","tag-shippensburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}