African Americans Defend Washington

African Americans Defend Washington is a North Carolina historical marker in Beaufort County, dedicated 2016.

Main Street at Gladden Street in Washington

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Prior to formation of 1st N.C. Colored Volunteers about 100 black men were armed to aid Union forces during the siege of Washington in 1863.

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Historical maps covering this location

1846 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1846) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1863 · Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1891 · (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Chocowinity, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1905 · Chocowinity, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering the location of African Americans Defend Washington, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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African Americans Defend Washington

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