Henry McNeal Turner, AME minister and the first African American appointed by President Lincoln as a chaplain in the U.S. Army in 1863, was born in Hannah Circuit near Newberry, S.C.
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Presented by South Carolina Department of Education.
Henry McNeal Turner, AME minister and the first African American appointed by President Lincoln as a chaplain in the U.S. Army in 1863, was born in Hannah Circuit near Newberry, S.C.
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