Timeline: 1864
Land was purchased and a first church built for the Bethel A.M.E Church congregation at 405 E. Park in Champaign, IL.
April 24: The Illinois 29th United States Colored Troops (USCT) was organized. Nine men enlisted from Champaign County. Between 1863 and 1865 a total of 13 African American men enlisted in the Union Army from Champaign County (an estimated one quarter of the African American population listed in the 1860 census).
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