Invincible Grays
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Invincible Grays
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The Gray Invincibles were a "colored unit" of the Pennsylvania Militia. The group of soldiers were organized by T. Morgan Jones who escaped slavery in Virginia as a teen. He made it to Monongahela in 1855 and worked on steamships. The unit's service in the American Civil War was initially rejected by governor Andrew Curtin "who said they were not needed, nor would they be accepted." The group volunteered a second time after the Emancipation Proclamation and Battle of Gettysburg and served in Vir
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African American military unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_Grays
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2023-11-06T18:42:01Z
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