GDG- Blacks at Gettysburg

[cameron2 at optonline.net]

Back to Tom's question as to if there is any know count of the number of blacks with the AOP, I've never seen one.  But there are enough references in various acounts to black servants - not only officers, but sometimes company enlisted men chipping in to hire someone to do the cooking - that given how long the AOP had spend in an area where such "help" was easy to find and hire at very nominal cost, I wouldn't be surprised if the number was fairly substantial.  I think it's just that these people was almost all unofficial, and unrecorded, and therefore now somewhat lost to history.