Food for Thought

[bob_summers]

(08-17-2019 06:17 PM)Anita Wrote:  Here's a an article on the Mudd family's recent descendant gathering this past July 2019. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/maryland...0752807832

Anita: thanks for the link to the story. I hadn't seen it. One comment: In the article, Mr. Collins says that 87 black soldiers trained near the Mudd farm. I'm not sure where that figure comes from. There were actually about 4,000 black troops training nearby. The 7th, 9th, 19th, and 30th U.S. Colored Troop regiments, 1,000 men each, trained just 10 miles away at Camp Stanton (Benedict, Maryland) during the fall and winter of 1863-64.