{"id":159,"date":"2010-06-05T04:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T08:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-06-05T04:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T08:02:45","slug":"midland-cemetery-harrisburg-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/06\/05\/midland-cemetery-harrisburg-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Midland Cemetery &#8211; Harrisburg, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=5998763\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-160\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"midland\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/midland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Midland Cemetery is the final resting place for slaves, former slaves, men of the United States Colored Troops, Buffalo Soldiers and numerous leaders of the area&#8217;s African American community. In recent years, the Friends of Midland have rescued this historic burial ground from an overgrown field to a tranquil garden of peace and remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures below are the headstones of three soldiers who served in the USCT and were buried at Midland Cemetery.  Watch a short slideshow or click on one of the pictures below to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>(Pictures courtesy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=5998763\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Civil War Trails<\/a><\/em> and Calobe Jackson Jr.)<br \/>\n[nggallery id=15]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midland Cemetery is the final resting place for slaves, former slaves, men of the United States Colored Troops, Buffalo Soldiers and numerous leaders of the area&#8217;s African American community. In recent years, the Friends of Midland have rescued this historic burial ground from an overgrown field to a tranquil garden of peace and remembrance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hallowed-grounds","tag-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}