[April 14, 2024] Yesterday, a small group of local volunteers spent the morning repairing the fencing of an old Civil War cemetery. Buried there are veterans of the 25th Regiment Colored Troops and, it is believed, members of their families. Although I wrote about my discovery of the cemetery, its location is at a busy intersection and is well known to those who live in the area. It is known as the Boiling Civil War Cemetery.
Photo of the headstone of Civil War Private Charles Boling, Co. B., 25th Regt, N.J. Col Troops, photo taken 13 April 2024
I noted about a dozen graves in my older article, but we could only identify five, each with a headstone and GAR medallions. Veteran medallions today are provided free of charge to the deceased veteran’s family and paid for by the Veterans Administration. In this photograph, you can see that it is marked as GAR Post 32.
I found the GAR Post 32 medallions interesting because the posts were segregated organizations with separate posts for white and black veterans. About a 20-minute drive from this cemetery, Atlantic City, New Jersey, had two posts, Post 32 for whites and Post 54 for blacks. Those buried in these graves were part of the “Colored” Troops regiment. Post 54 convened at the Northside All Wars Memorial Building or the Old Soldiers’ Home, which still stands today.
We need to do more to honor these troops. The condition of the Boiling cemetery can be improved. For example, we should conduct a survey using ground-penetrating radar to locate other burial plots.
The small group of volunteers is not done yet. We’ll be back.
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Bless you, Gen. Satterfield and all that worked with you that day.
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Blessed Hellen Keller, you are soooo correct. This giving back to the community is what today’s America has lost, but there is HOPE and this effort to work on fencing at this Civil War Cemetery tells us that good guys and gals still exist and are willing to do that little bit extra to help out. Gen. Satterfield wrote about this cemetery earlier (as linked to in his article) and I went back to re-read it.
“Buried there are veterans of the 25th Regiment Colored Troops and, it is believed, members of their families. ” – Gen. Doug Satterfield. He and his compatriots are to be thanked and encouraged to do more in the future. Get some young folks involved too. That is what the Boy Scouts used to be about.
Thanks to all who volunteered. I hope to read more about this cemetery and other Civil War cemeteries and how they are being kept up.
Fantastic news!
Yes, great news that volunteers are still willing to do good without recognition or pay. Odds are that there were few, if any young people there on their own. Most young folks today don’t find this kind of support for their community to be useful or helpful. They would rather see themselves as victims and protest their “moral superiority” to the world.
“We need to do more to honor these troops. The condition of the Boiling cemetery can be improved. For example, we should conduct a survey using ground-penetrating radar to locate other burial plots. The small group of volunteers is not done yet. We’ll be back.” – Gen. Doug Satterfield. God Bless you all.
Joe Hooker Post 32, Grand Army of the Republic.
Most, though not all, Posts were segregated organizations with separate posts for white and black veterans. Atlantic City maintained two, segregated Posts. General Joseph Hooker Post 32 was the white veterans group, and Martin Delaney Post 54 was the black veterans group. Post 32 was named for General Joseph Hooker, who led the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorville, Virginia. Joseph Hooker Post 32 was established on September 1 1897 and remained active through 1931.
Source: https://snaccooperative.org/view/56492363
👍 Hey, thanks Xerces II for the research.
Xerces II, appreciate the link and information. There are those who will be looking more into this cemetery. I’m no historian but, to my knowledge, this is the only Civil War cemetery near my home in south Jersey. I’m sure there are more across the state and likely one near you if you live anywhere battles were fought.
Yes sir, thanks for the comment.
Doug Douglas my friend looked like you had a busy yet blessed day taken care of the veterans cemetery. It’s so easy to get so busy with life issues and take little of our time to reload and see if we can make a difference in taken care of fallen soldiers of pass war’s grave sites. If we can’t physically go out there we can donated funds to help out to get the work done. Doug I looked forward to being there for the Jun event i like to help with a donation.
Hi Eddie, indeed, it was a great day.
Anyone interested in helping out with the WWII Memorial can go to our website here: https://berniefriedenbergworldwariimemorial.com/making-a-donation
Thank you, sir for the link.
https://berniefriedenbergworldwariimemorial.com/making-a-donation
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I made a 25.00 dollars donation and sent to several veterans
🙏 A good news story. Gen. Satterfield, please pass along our thanks to those who were there helping repair parts of this US Civil War cemetery of “colored” troops from New Jersey. Well done!!!!! 🙏
Gen. Satterfield, a very special thank you to you and all those who were there to repair parts of this civil war cemetery. We should never forget those who fought to stop slavery in its tracks. America had not been a nation that long before the civil war, from 1776 to 1861, less than 100 years, yet, in that time the Christian nation decided that it was time to end the horrific slavery of the time and the war eventually claimed the lives of 618k soldiers and sailors. A terrible cost to remove a terrible sin, but the nation did it under Pres. Abraham Lincoln. Thank God for him and for those who were there, just like these soldiers buried in this Boiling Cemetery near Gen. S’s home.
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Excellent comments
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle for for his widow, and his orphan.” – US Pres Abraham Lincoln
… and yet the mighty Veterans Administration through their Woke Ideology have decided without input from real Americans to remove the quote because it makes the LGTBQ+ “community” unsafe and fearful. What a bunch of hogwash. See this article last year by Gen. Satterfield who slams the VA for this terrible scandal. “VA goes Woke as it removes Lincoln’s Quote”
https://www.theleadermaker.com/va-goes-woke-as-it-removes-lincolns-quote/
How far our nation has fallen.
True and we all know who to point the finger at and that straight white old man can’t even walk up a set of stairs without falling down. Shameful. I hope the next US president wipes out the “leadership” of the VA and replaces them with real patriotic informed proven leaders.
Got that right but at least there are those like the men and women who were there yesterday to honor and respect those civil war veterans and their families. Keep up the great works you and your teams of volunteers are doing.
Thank you all volunteers for what you are doing to honor and respect these Civil War soldiers.
Yes, those who passed should be remembered, never forgotten.