In 1868, "Little Bethel" AME Church was built as a permanent place of worship for free yet segregated Native and Black Americans, where they worshiped Almighty God. Its diverse congregation included Monroe County veterans of the United States Colored Troops of the Civil War. Mustered from Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania's 3rd USCT sieged forts in South Carolina with the famed 55th Massachusetts Infantry; Pennsylvania's 8th USCT fought at the Battle of Olustee, Florida, with the 54th Massachusetts, and one of its men became a POW at Andersonville, Georgia. The 22nd USCT pursued President Lincoln's assassin and led his funeral procession. Monroe County honored for service and sacrifice Burnese Haines, Edward Haines, John Jones, William Smith, Theodore Carver, Robert F. Smith, Amos Huff, George Johnson, Ogden Huff, Benjamin Ray, Daniel Washington, Moses Washington, Charles Adams, Jacob Boyd, Walter Jackson, Stephen Henry, Sanford Haines, James Ray, John A. Quago, John Quago, William H. Anderson, and Solomon Fristee.