Flip to "Roadside" – residence of Lucretia Mott,1319 Chestnut St., Philadelphia Old York Road (now Fairmont Park) Lucretia Mott is in the chair in the foreground. Close Window
Credit: (Left) New York Historical Society/Library of Congress; (right) The Library Company of Philadelphia
Located adjacent to the Mott’s property in Cheltenham, Camp William was the largest of the eight northern camps set up to train African-American troops, and the only one designated for black recruits only. The camp commander was Lieutenant Colonel Louis Wagner, a German-born officer in the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, who had been badly wounded at Bull Run. By the time it closed in 1865, 10,940 men from Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey had passed through Camp Penn and there formed into eleven regiments.
