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The Lynching of Frank Jones | Chambersburg, PA, June 1861
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The Lynching of Frank Jones | Chambersburg, PA, June 1861
“That’s when the fun began.” The line leapt off the screen as I perused a letter to the Luzerne Union newspaper, written on June 3, 1861. The words came from an Irish immigrant serving as a sergeant in the 8th Pennsylvania Infantry near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. What was the scene Sergeant Michael O’Reilly was describing? The horrific murder of an unnamed African American man at the hands of Pennsylvania soldiers in the early weeks of the Civi…
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