GDG- Blacks at Gettysburg

[John Wood (faculty)]

gettysburg at arthes.com writes:
>It has been reported that the ANV carried 6,000 slaves into the North with
>them during the Gettysburg Campaign.  That raises an interesting question
>about how many blacks (probably mostly contrabands but also some free
>blacks) the AoP had with them performing various jobs at Gettysburg.
>
>Anybody have stats on that?
>
>Tom

I remember reading somewhere that the ANV also sought to re-capture blacks
who had escaped slavery before the war and were in PA. Does anyone know
about this, or was it just one of the possibilities discussed in Richmond.


John Wood
jwood at mcdonogh.org