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Jeremiah Marion Mickley
A 19th-century minister and Civil War chaplain, he is remembered for preserving the story of the 43rd United States Colored Troops in a firsthand regimental history. His writing offers a direct window into the service of Black Union soldiers during the war.
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The Forty-third regiment United States Colored Troops
by Jeremiah Marion Mickley
About the author
Jeremiah Marion Mickley was an American minister, Civil War chaplain, and author. Available records indicate that he was born in Pennsylvania in the mid-1830s, studied at Franklin & Marshall College and at the theological seminary in Mercersburg, and became an ordained minister in the German Reformed Church.
Mickley served as chaplain of the 43rd United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. He is best known today for The Forty-third Regiment United States Colored Troops (published in 1866), an early regimental history that documents the unit’s service and helps preserve the contributions of Black Union soldiers.
Biographical details about his life are relatively scarce in the sources available online, but memorial records place his death in 1909 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For modern readers, his importance rests less in public fame than in the historical value of the account he left behind.