William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, 1773-1987

Container	Contents

	Form No. 5, James W. Simms, Company K, 32nd United States Colored Troops, 1864 (continued)
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BOX 2 ITEM 185	Property returns division, form I, examination section, Company H, 92nd United States Colored Troops, 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 185		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 186	Company fund account, Lieutenant A. G. Kreps, Company K, 67th United States Colored Troops, 2 Feb. 1867
BOX 2 ITEM 186		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 187	Confederate document, Engineer Hospital, Mobile, Ala., Tom (slave) admitted and died, Apr. 1864
BOX 2 ITEM 187		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 188	Release for contraband from Baton Rouge, La., penitentiary, 5 Apr. 1863
BOX 2 ITEM 188		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 189	Not acquired
BOX 2 ITEM 190	"Massachusetts and Recruitment of Southern Negroes, 1863-65," by Richard H. Abbott, Civil War History, Sept. 1968
BOX 2 ITEM 191	Various articles on slavery, Civil War History, Dec. 1967
BOX 2 ITEM 192-200	Documents of the 29th Connecticut Colored, in the field, 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 192-200		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 201-216	Documents of the 29th Connecticut Colored, in the field, 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 201-216		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 217	The Search for the Well-Dressed Soldier, 1865-1890, by Gordon Chappell, 1972
BOX 2 ITEM 218	General Orders, No. 30, War Dept., rations issued to "contrabands," 25 Jan. 1864
BOX 2 ITEM 218		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 219	General Orders, No. 21, Department of Virginia, murder trials before military court, Apr. 1866
BOX 2 ITEM 219		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 220	General Orders, No. 43, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, refugees seeking admission, Nov. 1864
BOX 2 ITEM 220		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 221	General Orders, No. 175, War Dept., liability of teamsters who refused to go to the front, Apr. 1864
BOX 2 ITEM 221		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 222	Special Orders, No. 244, Headquarters United States Forces, Port Hudson, La., 92nd United States Colored Troops, be prepared to leave, Nov. 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 222		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 223	Special Orders, No. 68, surplus ordnance, 67th United States Colored Infantry, Port Hudson, La., 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 223		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 224	Official Army Information Digest, concerning medals, Sept. 1963
BOX 2 ITEM 224		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 225	Pay Voucher, Colonel Blackman, 27th United States Colored Troops, black contrabands listed as servants, Feb. 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 225		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 226	Treasury Department, comptrollers office, Annapolis, Md., $300 bounty to be sent to agent, Baltimore, Aug. 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 226		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 227	Revolutionary War pay voucher for Frank Freeman, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1782-1789
BOX 2 ITEM 227		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 228	Letter from John S. Rock, attorney, 13 Dec. 1864, to Mr. Jolliffe asking for help in being admitted to bar of Supreme Court of the United States (first African American), 1864 -1865 , undated
BOX 2 ITEM 228		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 229	Letter from Union cavalryman, camp of 1st Brigade, 3rd Division Cavalry Corps, Falmouth, Va., "he had a contraband boy with him ... there are a good many contraband here in fact they don't seem to care much for anything," 1863
BOX 2 ITEM 229		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 230	Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, 1863
BOX 2 ITEM 230		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 231	Circular No. 3, War Department, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, freedmen will be compensated for land, 22 May 1865
BOX 2 ITEM 231		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 232	Letter from Owen Lovejoy, 37th Congress, House of Representatives stationery, "a colored woman can draw a pension for a son killed in battle, who had been regularly enlisted in the Services of the U.S.," 1863
BOX 2 ITEM 232		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 233	"A Union Officer's Recollections of the Negro as a Soldier," by Horace Montgomery, Pennsylvania History Quarterly Journal, signed by author, Apr. 1961
BOX 2 ITEM 233		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 234	Not acquired
BOX 2 ITEM 235	"The Colonel Died with his Men," by Reverend Richard K. MacMaster, New York State and the Civil War, article about Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts, 1962
BOX 2 ITEM 236	Letter from T. Clark, 4th United States Colored Cavalry, "to go immediately to Plaquemine with every available man to quell a mutiny among troops ... during absence clothing stolen," 1863
BOX 2 ITEM 236		Digital content available
BOX 2 ITEM 237	"78th Division, Field Uniforms, 1943-45," Military Collector and Historian, 1987
BOX 3 ITEM 238	"371st Infantry Regiment, 93rd Infantry Division, 1917-19," Military Collector and Historian, 1979
BOX 3 ITEM 239	Echoes of the Bugle, circa 1976
BOX 3 ITEM 239		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 240	Letter, "pleased to hear that you have received a commission in relation to getting still higher one in a colored regiment, it will do no harm," 28 Mar. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 240		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 241-242	Discharge papers of First Sergeant John Shaw by reason of appointment in the 9th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (African descent), final statement given at Milliken's Bend, 15 Apr. 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 241-242		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 243	License to marry, post provost marshal, any ordained minister of the Gospel is authorized to marry, Milton, Fla., July 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 243		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 244-245	Final statement and form no. 5 for Norman Johnson, Company A, 54th Massachusetts Colored Volunteers, able to sign name, paid at $13 per month, disability discharge, 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 244-245		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 246-247	Final statement and form no. 5 for Private Wesley Johnson, 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, from Folly Island, S.C., to Readville, Mass., disability discharge, 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 246-247		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 248-249	Final statement and form no. 5 for Private Israel Price, 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, from Folly Island, S.C., to Readville, Mass., disability discharge, from Terre Haute, Ind., 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 248-249		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 250	War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery, by William Whiting, 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 250		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 251	General Washington & General Jackson on Negro Soldiers, 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 251		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 252	The Negro as a Soldier, by Captain George R. Sherman, 7th United States Colored Troops, 1913
BOX 3 ITEM 252		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 253	The Freedmen's Record, Boston, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 253		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 254	Essay on Frederick Douglass, by the Reverend Richard K. McMasters, New York State and the Civil War, Jan. 1963
BOX 3 ITEM 254		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 255	John Brown's Raid, National Park Service history series, 1973
BOX 3 ITEM 255		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 256	Special Field Orders, No. 15, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, by Major General W. T. Sherman, re "young and able bodied negroes must be encouraged to enlist," mentions bounties paid and locations for settlement of freed Negroes and families of black soldiers, 15 Jan. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 256		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 257	Volunteer enlistment, James Thompson, 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, sworn in at Ft. Smith, Ark., Oct. 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 257		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 258	Business card of Levi Coffin, general agent, American Missionary Association and Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, circa 1850
BOX 3 ITEM 258		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 259	A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Lieutenant Eber C. Pratt by Rev. M.L. Richardson, 6th United States Colored Troops, killed in battle at Chapins Farm, died of wounds, leg amputated on field, 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 259		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 260	Not acquired
BOX 3 ITEM 261	The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, testimonials from the 62nd and 67th regiments, United States Colored Infantry, Morganza, La., p. 951, 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 261		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 262	Report of the Union League Club of the Reception and Care in the City of New York of the Soldiers Returning from the War, Sept. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 262		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 263	Discharge, Sailor Spencer Darr, Landsman, May 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 263		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 264	Quarterly Return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Corpus Christi, Tex., enfield rifled muskets in company, 122nd United States Colored Infantry, Sept. 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 264		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 265	Letter, Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., surgeon in charge, refers to financial matters of Private Charles Polk, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, Sept. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 265		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 266	Quartermaster stores, 29th Connecticut Volunteers Colored, in the field near Richmond, new clothing, Apr. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 266		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 267	Forage requisition, 29th Connecticut Volunteers Colored, Mar. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 267		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 268	Appointment and Commission of Colonel Martin L. Archer, 137th United States Colored Troops, signed Chief C. W. Foster, Thomas T. Eckart, assistant secretary of war. General Grant wanted Eckart to be Lincoln's body guard on the night of the assassination, 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 268		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 269	Letter of J. W. Smith, 156th New York, "Their is mor Blacks than their is wites their is good many slaves," 13 Dec. 1862
BOX 3 ITEM 269		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 270	Letter, Headquarters, 15th United States Colored Infantry, give the bearer the accounts of her dead husband, a private of this regiment, June 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 270		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 271	Sworn statement of Captain William Wells, 47th United States Colored Infantry, concerning James Welch, was in 15th Iowa, hospital steward in 8th Regiment of Louisiana Volunteer Infantry of A.D., Vicksburg, Miss., May 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 271		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 272	New England Freedmen's Union Commission document, application for forming auxiliary New England society, 1866
BOX 3 ITEM 272		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 273	"Evidence of title," application for slave master to receive bounty for his slave enlisting in the 30th United States Colored Troops, slave for life, Maryland, 1864-1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 273		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 274	Indenture, "Bettie Hardie a Colored girl about Ten years of age," Alabama, Dec. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 274		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 275	General Orders, No. 1, Headquarters Corps d'Afrique, Louisville, Ky., June 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 275		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 276	General Orders, No. 3, Headquarters Corps d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Ohio River, June 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 276		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 277	General Orders, No. 4, Headquarters Corps d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Ohio River, June 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 277		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 278	Letter from soldier, 115th New York, comments on African-American soldiers from Boston [54th Massachusetts?], June 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 278		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 279	Sailor Discharge, mulatto, landsman, 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 279		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 280	Sailor Discharge, Negro, ordinary seaman, 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 280		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 281	Sheet music, "Babylon is Fallen!" by Henry C. Work, and "Abraham's Daughter," as sung by Bryant's Minstrels, undated
BOX OV 1 ITEM 281		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 282	The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, New York, "The Colored Hospital," p. 680, Sept. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 282		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 283	Letter, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase from Daniel Ammen, Feb. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 283		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 284	Letter, 28th United States Colored Troops, enlisted man, B. F. Trail, Camp Casey, Arlington Heights, Va., mentions Robert E. Lee's slaves, describes barracks, May 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 284		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 285	Not acquired
BOX 3 ITEM 286	Special Orders, No. 14, 38th United States Colored Infantry, private detailed as sharpshooter to report to headquarters, undated
BOX 3 ITEM 286		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 287	Broadside, "Kingdom Coming" (song), undated
BOX 3 ITEM 287		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 288	Letter, Springfield, to Richard Bacon, "relics of barbarism," i.e. whip and instruments of torture brought from New Orleans, La., by Colonel Hanks, Dec. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 288		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 289	Confederate letter, "I was not in favor of putting negroes in as soldiers, I am willing to go right by the side of the blackest negro in all chrisendom and shoot round for round with him," Feb. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 289		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 290	Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Folly Island, S.C., Oct. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 290		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 291	Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Orangeburg, S.C., July 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 291		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 292	Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Charleston, S.C., Mar. 1866
BOX 3 ITEM 292		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 293	Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Edisto Island, S.C., signed "Civilian," Mar. 1866
BOX 3 ITEM 293		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 294	Letter, Beaufort, S.C., buy land and "have it cultivated and have the negroes pay a certain number of pounds of Cotton per acre," Jan. 1866
BOX 3 ITEM 294		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 295	Letter, Camp Casey, to 30th United States Colored Troops, deserter in camp of 43rd United States Colored Troops, signed by Colonel Yeoman, Aug. 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 295		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 296	Confederate document, Governor Vance's message to the General Assembly of North Carolina, slaves to be employed for state defense, slaves taxed, Nov. 1862
BOX 3 ITEM 296		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 297	The Conscription, Also Speeches of the Honorable W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the arming of African Americans, Philadelphia, Pa., 1863
BOX 3 ITEM 297		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 298	Pay voucher, Thomas Stillwell, surgeon, 8th New York, two black servants, Aug. 1862
BOX OV 1 ITEM 298		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 299	Pay voucher, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, light servant, 1863
BOX OV 1 ITEM 299		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 300	Letter from teacher in Freedmen's Camp, Pine Buff, Ark., children stealing everything from one another, undated
BOX 3 ITEM 300		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 301	Broadside advertising a free military school for command of colored troops, undated
BOX 3 ITEM 301		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 302	Letter, Ferdinand Ellick, Company A, 31st United States Colored Troops, 4th Division, 2nd Brigade, 9th Army Corps, concerning money, July 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 302		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 303	Pay Voucher for Captain Harding, Company A, 48th United States Colored Troops, black servant, 1864
BOX OV 1 ITEM 303		Digital content available
BOX OV 3 ITEM 304	Discharge muster roll, Company I, 10th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), 1867
BOX OV 3 ITEM 304		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 305-306	Letters: Abigail Sutton, Chief Office Contrabands, Nashville, Tenn., to family and Lieutenant Frank Crawford, 101st United States Colored Troops, Nashville, Tenn., to Mary Sutton, both concerning activity at Contraband Camp, officers of 101st, 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 305-306		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 307	Commissary orders, headquarters, post of Smithville, N.C., "give rations to 13 refugee contrabands in our employ for the day," June 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 307		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 308	Monthly return of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, 77th United States Colored Infantry, New Orleans, La., new equipment, June 1864
BOX 3 ITEM 308		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 309	"Confiscation of Rebel Property," remarks of Owen Lovejoy delivered in the House of Representatives, Apr. 1862
BOX 3 ITEM 309		Digital content available
BOX 3 ITEM 310	General Orders, No. 55, New Orleans, La., court-martial of enlisted men of 73rd, 74th, 77th, and 78th United States Colored Troops, Oct. 1865
BOX 3 ITEM 310		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 311	General Orders, No. 1, Monroe, La., appointment of Captain Horrigan, 84th United States Colored Troops, as acting inspector general, Sept. 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 311		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 312	Letter, 13th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Bowling Green, Ky., concerning officers recruiting African-American men, Oct. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 312		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 313	Letter, Captain R. Buckley, 197th Pennsylvania Volunteers from Rock Island Prison, Rock Island, Ill., concerning African-American regiment guarding rebel prisoners, Sept. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 313		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 314	Instructions for Officers of the Adjutant General's Department, inscribed by J. Langdon Ward, 3rd Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, 1862
BOX 4 ITEM 314		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 315	Broadside, "The Colored Volunteer" (song), chromolithograph, undated
BOX 4 ITEM 315		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 316	Letter, J. Dickson, 27th Connecticut, Dr. Wright "hanged for killing a officer while drilling a Company of niggers in the street of Norfolk," 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 316		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 317	Discharge of officer, 99th United States Colored Troops, 1866
BOX 4 ITEM 317		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 318	General Orders, No. 77, Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., recruiting for Corps d'Afrique, Oct. 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 318		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 319	Affidavit of officer, 13th Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, went on recruiting detail in Baton Rouge and when he returned found that clothing he was responsible for had been stolen by contrabands, Apr. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 319		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 320	Broadside, "The Second Louisiana," by George Boker, May 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 320		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 321	Letter, Alexander Hayward, 24th Massachusetts, before Petersburg, Va., concerning presidential election - "country first and negroes afterwards," Sept. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 321		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 322	Pamphlet, The Equality of All Men Before the Law, by George Stearns, Boston, Mass., Apr. 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 322		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 323	Speech of Honorable Daniel Webster on Slavery, Boston, Mass., 1850
BOX 4 ITEM 323		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 324	Note signed by Silas Casey, re "God in his wisdom means to examine the black devil which has no place in this nation," with photo of Casey, undated
BOX 4 ITEM 324		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 325	Provost Marshal document re George Blackson, white man had him enlisted in regiment, was captured by rebels and made to work on breastwork, remained two months, when six rebels deserted he left with them and arrived at City Point, Va., in custody, to be sent back to his regiment, 30th United States Colored Troops, 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 325		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 326	Circular, depot quartermaster, City Point, Va., prohibits persons on board not employed by them, July 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 326		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 327	Pamphlet, The Upward Way, Freedmen's Aid Society, Ohio, 1916
BOX 4 ITEM 327		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 328	Pamphlet, Pensions, S.D. Clinton, pension attorney, Addison, N.Y., circa 1882
BOX 4 ITEM 328		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 329	Speech of Mr. Slade on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Dec. 1835
BOX 4 ITEM 329		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 330	Letter to Captain Buckley, 197th Pennsylvania, Rock Island Prison, Rock Island, Ill., anti-Lincoln sentiment, African-American camp meeting, 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 330		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 331	Remarks of Mr. Hammond of South Carolina on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 1836
BOX 4 ITEM 331		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 332	Speech of Mr. Vanderpoel of New York delivered in the House of Representatives on the resolution declaring that slaves have no right to petition Congress, Feb. 1837
BOX 4 ITEM 332		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 333	Revolutionary War document, Caster Freeman served as a private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Camp Highland, Jan. 1780
BOX 4 ITEM 333		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 334	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Caster Freeman, Mar. 1782
BOX 4 ITEM 334		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 335	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Lyons, Oct. 1782
BOX 4 ITEM 335		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 336	Revolutionary War document, Prince Dennison served as a soldier in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment, Jan. 1780
BOX 4 ITEM 336		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 337	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Prince Dennison, Mar. 1782
BOX 4 ITEM 337		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 338	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Jack Yale, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780
BOX 4 ITEM 338		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 339	Revolutionary War document, Middletown, [Conn.?], re shoes and stockings, Dec. 1781
BOX 4 ITEM 339		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 340	Revolutionary War document, Middletown, [Conn.?], deliver to Exeter Freeman, a soldier in my company, one pair of overalls, one shoes and one shirt to be taken from my wages, 1782
BOX 4 ITEM 340		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 341	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Abraham Pharoah served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780-1785
BOX 4 ITEM 341		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 342	Receipt to Ovid Negro, Hartford, trucking six bundles of hay from the waterside, 1787
BOX 4 ITEM 342		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 343	Letter, raid of 54th Massachusetts and 2nd South Carolina, Combahee River, S.C., 5 June 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 343		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 344	"No Compromise of Human Rights, No Disfranchisement on Account of Color," speech of Charles Sumner delivered in the Senate, Mar. 1866
BOX 4 ITEM 344		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 345	Letter from Lieutenant Aleck Hayward, 24th Massachusetts, to Lizzie Wilkens, Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 345		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 346	Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Freeman, Mar. 1783
BOX 4 ITEM 346		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 347	Revolutionary War document, West Point, N.Y., pay the balance for his service in the Continental Army for the year 1780, Exeter Freeman, Nov. 1782
BOX 4 ITEM 347		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 348	House of Representatives, 52nd Congress, report. no. 1984, Captain Beuter, 4th United States Colored Cavalry, 1868
BOX 4 ITEM 348		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 349	Letter re deserter John Beard, 30th United States Colored Infantry, Nov. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 349		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 350	Poem, handwritten, "The Little Contraband," n.d.
BOX 4 ITEM 350		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 351-371	Documents re 10th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Fort Macomb, La., quartermaster ordnance documents, 1865-1866
BOX 4 ITEM 351-371		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 372	Savings of company M, 10th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Feb. 1866
BOX 4 ITEM 372		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 373-375	Documents of 29th Connecticut Colored Volunteers, in the field, 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 373-375		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 376-386	Documents of Captain Romanzo C. Bailey, 8th United States Colored Troops, correspondence, certificates, pension papers, 1863-1920
BOX 4 ITEM 376-386		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 387-388	Documents of Captain Romanzo C. Bailey, 8th United States Colored Troops, service history, National Guard commission, 1871, circa 1890
BOX OV 1 ITEM 387-388		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 389	Discharge and final statement for C. Lumsay, Company K, 74th United States Colored Troops, surgeon certificate of disability, 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 389		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 390	Monthly quartermaster return of clothing, etc., 53rd United States Colored Troops, Feb. 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 390		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 391-392	Documents of 53rd United States Colored Troops, inventory and inspection report, invoice of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 391-392		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 393	Invoice of clothing, (new) Company B, 53rd United States Colored Infantry, May 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 393		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 394-395	Letters, Private George Spencer to his father, Drummondtown, Va., "Have got A nigger Wench to cook for us," Camp Parole, Md. "I didn't want to fight for a stinkin nigger," 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 394-395		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 396	Letter, Private John Smith to his father, 75th New York, New Orleans, La., "We do not go much on Niggers and we curse the day when our Gov made Soldiers of an inferior race," Jan. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 396		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 397	Pension certificate of Henry Fretz, 3rd Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry, 1898
BOX 4 ITEM 397		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 398	Letter, Private Jones to sister, 11th Massachusetts, "i have got a little niggar girl for you and i will bring her home when i come," Oct. 1861
BOX 4 ITEM 398		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 399	Letter, Office of Superintendent of Negro Labor, New Orleans, La., report to General Banks on use of four hundred free African Americans for cultivation of thirteen plantations, May 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 399		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 400	Not acquired
BOX 4 ITEM 401	Letter to Captain D. R. Mussey from Private Craig requesting examination by board to be officer in black regiment, Mar. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 401		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 402-408	World War I documents of Lieutenant Goodlett found in his officer's tunic, 370th Infantry, 93rd Infantry Division, 1918 , undated
BOX 4 ITEM 402-408		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 409	Pay voucher, officer, 9th Regiment United States Colored Troops, black servant, 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 409		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 410	General Orders, No. 44, Navy Department, court-martial of black sailors, Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 410		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 411	Not acquired
BOX 4 ITEM 412	Not acquired
BOX 4 ITEM 413	Statement of lost or destroyed articles, 53rd United States Colored Troops, charged on muster roll and payroll, due to negligence, May-June 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 413		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 414	Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, message from the president to the House of Representatives, Dec. 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 414		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 415	Report, Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs, to the House of Representatives, Feb. 1865
BOX 4 ITEM 415		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 416	Confederate document, slave appraisal, Mississippi, Jan. 1861
BOX 4 ITEM 416		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 417	Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher, undated
BOX 4 ITEM 417		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 418	General Orders, No. 19, Headquarters 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, officers detailed to board of examination for positions in "African Regiments," May 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 418		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 419	Confederate document, General Orders, No. 25, Adjutant General's Office, Richmond, Va., "to protect the rights of owners of slaves to be employed in the army," Mar. 1863
BOX 4 ITEM 419		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 420	Report to the Senate submitted by Sumner to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, plus other acts, Feb. 1864
BOX 4 ITEM 420		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 421	Report by Mr. Noel, House of Representatives, "Emancipation of the Slaves of the Rebels," June 1862
BOX 4 ITEM 421		Digital content available
BOX 4 ITEM 422	Letter from H. R. Gamble, governor of Missouri, to the House of Representatives, emancipation in Missouri, June 1862
BOX 4 ITEM 422		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 423	Confederate document, message from the president to the House and Senate, Richmond, Va., 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 423		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 424	Report, House of Representatives, emancipation and colonization, July 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 424		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 425	Confederate ordinance concerning convicted slave named Richard, undated
BOX 5 ITEM 425		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 426	Confederate document, "$400.00 ... for the hire of a nigra slave named Turner which negro is to be clothed in the usual manner of hirelings," Jan. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 426		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 427	Marriage license, Kentucky, colored, Oct. 1902
BOX 5 ITEM 427		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 428	Receipt, "on hire of servant girl," S. Snodgrass, Mar. 1849
BOX 5 ITEM 428		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 429	Tax form, Frederick County, 1858
BOX 5 ITEM 429		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 430	Tax form, Frederick County, 1860
BOX 5 ITEM 430		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 431	Confederate tax form, Amherst County, 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 431		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 432	Confederate tax receipt, 1861
BOX 5 ITEM 432		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 433	Confederate letter concerning slaves, General Mosely, undated
BOX 5 ITEM 433		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 434	Confederate letter, Flint Hill, what to do with slaves if Yankees come, Aug. 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 434		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 435	Receipt for hire of servant girl, Oct. 1859
BOX 5 ITEM 435		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 436	Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Record, Levi Metcalf, 1st South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd United Stated Colored Infantry, engaged in eight battles, disabled at Port Royal, S.C., circa 1884
BOX 5 ITEM 436		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 437	Not acquired
BOX 5 ITEM 438	Father or mother's claim for bounty money and arrears of pay, 74th United States Colored Troops, volunteered in New Orleans, state of Louisiana claim, 1875
BOX 5 ITEM 438		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 439	Brother's and sister's claim for bounty and back pay, state of Tennessee, 17th United States Colored Infantry, died of disease while in service, Wilson Hospital, Nashville, Tenn., 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 439		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 440	Confederate will of Alabama citizen giving his slaves to family, May 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 440		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 441	Confederate document, affidavit by a slave owner's overseer who was in charge of Negroes, to be used for loss of slave, July 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 441		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 442	Letter to father and mother, Camp Seward (abolition), Lincoln Avenue No. 10, Santa Rosa, Fla., detailed escape of slaves, Mar. 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 442		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 443	Confederate payroll to slave masters for use of slaves at Charleston, S.C., Jan.-Apr. 1864
BOX OV 1 ITEM 443		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 444	Affidavit, camp of the 21st Connecticut Volunteers, in the field, Virginia, re lost equipment, "returned to camp that had been occupied by colored troops, the following items missing," Mar. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 444		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 445	Discharge papers of Lieutenant H. Scofield, 88th United States Colored Troops, Port Hudson, La., discontinuance of regiment, Aug. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 445		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 446	Receipt from Steamship United States for $25 from Lieutenant Scofield for trip from New Orleans, La., to New York, Aug. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 446		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 447-456	Not acquired
BOX 5 ITEM 457	War Department regulations concerning final statements with regard to Alexander Washington of the 77th United States Colored Troops, Ft. St. Phillip, La., June 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 457		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 458	Letter, Joseph Price, 55th United States Colored Troops, Port Hudson, La., enlisted man, refers to bounty, promised and received, Apr. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 458		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 459	Special Orders, No. 199, War Department, court-martial of private from Corps d'Afrique, sentence remitted, May 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 459		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 460	General Orders, No. 32, Headquarters, Southern Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, July 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 460		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 461	General Orders, No. 28, Headquarters, Southern Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, June 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 461		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 462	Pay voucher, Willis Relick (contraband), for services as teamster in the division supply train, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps for Sept. 1862, Mar. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 462		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 463	License to be married by an ordained minister of the Gospel, office of the post provost marshal, Milton, Fla., July 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 463		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 464	Pay voucher of Lieutenant James Shiff, 72nd United States Colored Infantry, "Copper servant," Aug. 1864
BOX OV 1 ITEM 464		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 465	List of clothing lost, 13th Regiment Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, ordered to New Orleans, La., with thirty-six men, clothing missing when they returned, Mar. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 465		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 466	General Orders, No. 6, officer appointments, Corps d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Aug. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 466		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 467	Requisition for fuel, 2nd Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, Six Mile Island, Sept. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 467		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 468	Receipt roll of hired African-American men paid $20 a month at Brandy Station, Va., Jan. 1864
BOX OV 1 ITEM 468		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 469	The Hampton Album by Frances Johnston, 1966
BOX 5 ITEM 470	Sutlers and Their Tokens, 1861-1866, United States Colored Troops tokens, undated
BOX 5 ITEM 471	Post Exchange, Canteen and Other Military Tokens, by James Curto, 1954
BOX 5 ITEM 472	Sutlers Issues of the Civil War, United States Colored Troops tokens, by James Curto, 1959
BOX 5 ITEM 473	Officer's commission, vellum, 29th United States Colored Troops, signed by C. W. Foster and C. Dana, Aug. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 473		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 474	Letter to secretary of war from soldier's father asking the secretary not to accept son's request for resignation, 9 Feb. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 474		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 475	Special Orders, No. 10, Carrollton, La., appointing Captain E. I. Wage, 20th United States Colored Troops, military provost, June 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 475		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 476	Sharecropper's contract, to share one-third crop, 5 Oct. 1867
BOX 5 ITEM 476		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 477	World War I, General Orders, No. 203, American Expeditionary Forces, France, General John J. Pershing to soldiers, "The enemy has capitulated," 12 Nov. 1918
BOX 5 ITEM 477		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 478	Revolutionary War tax levy to support a man in the Continental Army for 3 years (see Resolves of Congress Nov. 2, 1777, May 21, 1779, and Oct. 6, 1779). African Americans Pompey and Moses included to be taxed, undated
BOX 5 ITEM 478		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 479	Court order, sale of Negro, Cocke v. Pucket, Nov. 1773
BOX 5 ITEM 479		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 480	Poem, southern viewpoint, "Our Opinion," white child and her black "mammy" talk about President Lincoln and freedom, undated
BOX OV 1 ITEM 480		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 481	Provisional commission, Private Augustus Bretts, Company B, 128th New York Infantry, promoted captain, First Regiment Engineers, Corps d'Afrique, signed by General Nathaniel P. Banks, New Orleans, La., 2 Sept. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 481		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 482	Clothing requisition, 8th Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, Captain Keating, Company K, 1 Feb. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 482		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 483	Order No. 2, by L. Thomas, Adjutant General,camp for contrabands, Nashville, Tenn. "All male negroes ... capable of bearing arms, will be mustered into companies and regiments of Colored Troops," 4 Feb. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 483		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 484	New clothing requisition, 78th United States Colored Infantry, Captain Frank Nagel, Company B, Thibidaux, La., 10 June 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 484		Digital content available
BOX OV 1 ITEM 485	Inventory and Inspection Report of Subsistence Stores, (i.e. salt beef, flour, hard bread, rice, onions, beef tongue) unfit for issue, to be sold, 74th United Stated Colored Troops, Sept. 1865
BOX OV 1 ITEM 485		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 486	General Orders, No. 23, New Orleans, La., court-martial of twelve United States Colored Troops soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Mether, 20th United States Colored Troops, president, different offenses, 23 May 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 486		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 487	General Orders, No. 136, Headquarters Dept. of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., reference to "mixed troops," 31 Aug. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 487		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 488	Confederate document from General Honne, "patrol ... County at least once a week, negro quarters and other places suspected of having unlawful assemblies," 22 Dec. 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 488		Digital content available
BOX OV 4 ITEM 489	Muster roll, Company A, 25th United States Colored Troops, contains notes on leaving Camp William Penn, transport ship was condemned, Feb.-Apr. 1864
BOX OV 4 ITEM 489		Digital content available
BOX OV 4 ITEM 490	Muster roll, Company F, 25th United States Colored Troops, mark signed with "X," Feb.-Apr. 1864
BOX OV 4 ITEM 490		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 491	Receipt, Millikens Bend, La., Second Lieutenant Hagens, 8th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Sept. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 491		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 492	General Orders, No. 58, Headquarters, New Orleans, La., governor of Louisiana on the conscription of African Americans for the Confederacy, 11 Oct. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 492		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 493	Letter from Union soldier, Marine Hospital, La., describes an African-American wedding, undated
BOX 5 ITEM 493		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 494	Confederate document, Special Orders, No. 281, handwritten, Williamsburg, Va., James City did not furnish its full quota of slave labor for Confederate service, 18 Mar. 1862
BOX 5 ITEM 494		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 495	Recollection of a Colored Troop, by Major John MacMurray, 6th United States Colored Troops, 1916
BOX 5 ITEM 495		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 496	Broadside poem with chromolithograph illustration, "Darkey Conscript," undated
BOX 5 ITEM 496		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 497	Officer's commission on vellum, 2nd United States Colored Troops, signed by C.W. Foster and C. Dana, Oct. 1864
BOX 5 ITEM 497		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 498	Letter, soldier to mother, Spanish Fort, Ala., re African-American troops and the torpedo, 8 Apr. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 498		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 499	Letter, soldier to Lizzie and Annie, before Petersburg, concerning "beast Butler" and war weariness, 28 Aug. 1864 .
BOX 5 ITEM 499		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 500	Letter by William Bailey (a relative of Colonel David Bailey), re war news, three African Americans shot in Henry County [Va.?], circa 1861-circa 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 500		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 501	Letter, soldier to family in Ohio, Martinsburg, Virginia, not wanting to fight for "niggers," 27 Jan. 1863
BOX 5 ITEM 501		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 502	Letter, soldier to Flora in Michigan, re dinner with corn cakes by "neighboring lady of color," Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 502		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 503	Letter, soldier to Flora in Michigan, Paint Rock Station, Ala., "They [rebel guerilla bands] much prefer attacking unarmed R.R. Repairers, citizens, and defenseless negroes, to meddling with 'Yanks' who know how to use the Rifles they possess," 4 Mar. 1865
BOX 5 ITEM 503		Digital content available
BOX 5 ITEM 504	Dick Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes, with music, New York, 1889
BOX 5 ITEM 504		Digital content available