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Infantry
There were one hundred and forty-two infantry regiments in the Bureau of the United States Colored Troops
Private James Smith
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With Freedom Came Their Churches
In the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln attended church services at Camp Barker, a Freedman's village located in northwest Washington City. The headquarters of the camp was located between R and S Streets, NW, with the east and west boundary of Vermont on the east, and 13th Street on the West. Three churches were built in that vicinity immediately after the Civil War. The church has historically bee one of the most vital institutions in America's African descent communities. Churches in the Greater U Street Corridor provided the foundation for a Freedmen's village of runaways to become one of the most affluent African American communities in the country.
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Saint Augustine Catholic Church, 1899: The church was founded as a separate African American parish in 1867.
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The Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, 1899: The church was founded in 1841 as the First
Colored Presbyterian Church by Reverend John F. Cook. Reverend Henry Garnet served as pastor of the church from 1864 to 1866.
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Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, 1899: The church was established by the merger of two of the older A.M.E. churches in the District of Columbia. Officially designated as Metropolitan in 1872, the cornerstone of the edifice was laid in 1881.
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Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1899: The church was founded as the Fourth Baptist Church during the Civil War. Under the leadership of Reverent Bailey, ten freed men formed a congregation met in tents near Camp Barker.
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Freedmen's Village, established the summer of 1862.
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Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 1899: Seven freedmen founded the church in 1866 as the Fifth Baptist Church. They called as their first pastor Reverend John H. Brooks, a former Union Army teamster.
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Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ, 1928: The church was founded in 1870.
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Annual baptism
at the Griffith Stadium by Elder Michaux of the Church of God, 1930
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Baptism procession
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Shiloh Baptist Church clock unveiling in celebration of its 84th Anniversary: The church was founded in Fredericksburg, Virginia before the Civil War. The Union Army used the church building as a hospital in 1861, and about 400 members made their way to Washington, DC. The Washington church elected its first pastor, Reverent William Walker, in 1863.
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Bishop Charles Emmanuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace, founder of the United House of Prayer for All People, is seated at the front.
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