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Pay Voucher for Captain Harding, Company A, 48th
United States Colored Troops, black servant, 1864
(continued) |
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BOX OV 3 ITEM 304 |
Discharge muster roll, Company I, 10th United
States Colored Artillery (Heavy), 1867
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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
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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
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BOX 3 ITEM 308 |
Monthly return of clothing, camp and garrison
equipage, 77th United States Colored Infantry, New Orleans, La., new equipment,
June
1864
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BOX 3 ITEM 309 |
"Confiscation of Rebel Property," remarks of Owen
Lovejoy delivered in the House of Representatives, Apr. 1862
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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
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 312 |
Letter, 13th United States Colored Artillery
(Heavy), Bowling Green, Ky., concerning officers recruiting African-American men,
Oct.
1864
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 314 |
Instructions for Officers of the Adjutant General's Department, inscribed by J. Langdon Ward, 3rd Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, 1862
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BOX 4 ITEM 315 |
Broadside, "The Colored Volunteer" (song),
chromolithograph, undated |
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 317 |
Discharge of officer, 99th United States Colored
Troops, 1866
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BOX 4 ITEM 318 |
General Orders, No. 77, Headquarters, Department of
the Gulf, New Orleans, La., recruiting for Corps d'Afrique, Oct. 1863
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 320 |
Broadside, "The Second Louisiana," by George Boker,
May
1863
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BOX 4 ITEM 321 |
Letter, Alexander Hayward, 24th Massachusetts,
before Petersburg, Va., concerning presidential election - "country first and
negroes afterwards," Sept. 1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 322 |
Pamphlet, The Equality of All Men Before the Law, by George Stearns, Boston, Mass., Apr. 1865
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BOX 4 ITEM 323 |
Speech of Honorable Daniel Webster on Slavery, Boston, Mass., 1850
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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 |
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 326 |
Circular, depot quartermaster, City Point, Va.,
prohibits persons on board not employed by them, July 1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 327 |
Pamphlet, The Upward Way, Freedmen's Aid Society, Ohio, 1916
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BOX 4 ITEM 328 |
Pamphlet, Pensions, S.D. Clinton, pension attorney, Addison, N.Y., circa 1882
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 330 |
Letter to Captain Buckley, 197th Pennsylvania, Rock
Island Prison, Rock Island, Ill., anti-Lincoln sentiment, African-American camp
meeting, 1864
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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
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 333 |
Revolutionary War document, Caster Freeman served
as a private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Camp Highland, Jan. 1780
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BOX 4 ITEM 334 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Caster Freeman,
Mar.
1782
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BOX 4 ITEM 335 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Lyons, Oct. 1782
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BOX 4 ITEM 336 |
Revolutionary War document, Prince Dennison served
as a soldier in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment, Jan. 1780
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BOX 4 ITEM 337 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Prince Dennison,
Mar.
1782
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BOX 4 ITEM 338 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Jack Yale, served in
the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780
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BOX 4 ITEM 339 |
Revolutionary War document, Middletown, [Conn.?],
re shoes and stockings, Dec. 1781
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 341 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Abraham Pharoah
served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780-1785
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BOX 4 ITEM 342 |
Receipt to Ovid Negro, Hartford, trucking six
bundles of hay from the waterside, 1787
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BOX 4 ITEM 343 |
Letter, raid of 54th Massachusetts and 2nd South
Carolina, Combahee River, S.C., 5 June 1863
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 345 |
Letter from Lieutenant Aleck Hayward, 24th
Massachusetts, to Lizzie Wilkens, Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 346 |
Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Freeman,
Mar.
1783
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 348 |
House of Representatives, 52nd Congress, report.
no. 1984, Captain Beuter, 4th United States Colored Cavalry, 1868
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BOX 4 ITEM 349 |
Letter re deserter John Beard, 30th United States
Colored Infantry, Nov. 1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 350 |
Poem, handwritten, "The Little Contraband,"
n.d. |
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BOX 4 ITEM 351-371 |
Documents re 10th United States Colored Artillery
(Heavy), Fort Macomb, La., quartermaster ordnance documents, 1865-1866
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BOX 4 ITEM 372 |
Savings of company M, 10th United States Colored
Artillery (Heavy), Feb. 1866
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BOX 4 ITEM 373-375 |
Documents of 29th Connecticut Colored Volunteers,
in the field, 1865
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BOX 4 ITEM 376-386 |
Documents of Captain Romanzo C. Bailey, 8th United
States Colored Troops, correspondence, certificates, pension papers, 1863-1920
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 389 |
Discharge and final statement for C. Lumsay,
Company K, 74th United States Colored Troops, surgeon certificate of disability,
1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 390 |
Monthly quartermaster return of clothing, etc.,
53rd United States Colored Troops, Feb. 1865
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 393 |
Invoice of clothing, (new) Company B, 53rd United
States Colored Infantry, May 1865
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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
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 397 |
Pension certificate of Henry Fretz, 3rd Regiment
United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry, 1898
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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BOX OV 1 ITEM 409 |
Pay voucher, officer, 9th Regiment United States
Colored Troops, black servant, 1865
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BOX 4 ITEM 410 |
General Orders, No. 44, Navy Department,
court-martial of black sailors, Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 1864
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 414 |
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
message from the president to the House of Representatives, Dec. 1865
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BOX 4 ITEM 415 |
Report, Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs, to the House
of Representatives, Feb. 1865
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BOX 4 ITEM 416 |
Confederate document, slave appraisal, Mississippi,
Jan.
1861
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BOX 4 ITEM 417 |
Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher,
undated |
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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
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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
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BOX 4 ITEM 420 |
Report to the Senate submitted by Sumner to repeal
the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, plus other acts, Feb. 1864
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BOX 4 ITEM 421 |
Report by Mr. Noel, House of Representatives,
"Emancipation of the Slaves of the Rebels," June 1862
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BOX 4 ITEM 422 |
Letter from H. R. Gamble, governor of Missouri, to
the House of Representatives, emancipation in Missouri, June 1862
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BOX 5 ITEM 423 |
Confederate document, message from the president to
the House and Senate, Richmond, Va., 1864
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BOX 5 ITEM 424 |
Report, House of Representatives, emancipation and
colonization, July 1862
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BOX 5 ITEM 425 |
Confederate ordinance concerning convicted slave
named Richard, undated |
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 427 |
Marriage license, Kentucky, colored, Oct. 1902
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BOX 5 ITEM 428 |
Receipt, "on hire of servant girl," S. Snodgrass,
Mar.
1849
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BOX 5 ITEM 429 |
Tax form, Frederick County, 1858
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BOX 5 ITEM 430 |
Tax form, Frederick County, 1860
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BOX 5 ITEM 431 |
Confederate tax form, Amherst County, 1863
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BOX 5 ITEM 432 |
Confederate tax receipt, 1861
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BOX 5 ITEM 433 |
Confederate letter concerning slaves, General
Mosely, undated |
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BOX 5 ITEM 434 |
Confederate letter, Flint Hill, what to do with
slaves if Yankees come, Aug. 1862
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BOX 5 ITEM 435 |
Receipt for hire of servant girl, Oct. 1859
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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
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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
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 440 |
Confederate will of Alabama citizen giving his
slaves to family, May 1862
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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
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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
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BOX OV 1 ITEM 443 |
Confederate payroll to slave masters for use of
slaves at Charleston, S.C., Jan.-Apr. 1864
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 445 |
Discharge papers of Lieutenant H. Scofield, 88th
United States Colored Troops, Port Hudson, La., discontinuance of regiment, Aug. 1864
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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
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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
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 459 |
Special Orders, No. 199, War Department,
court-martial of private from Corps d'Afrique, sentence remitted, May 1865
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BOX 5 ITEM 460 |
General Orders, No. 32, Headquarters, Southern
Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, July 1865
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BOX 5 ITEM 461 |
General Orders, No. 28, Headquarters, Southern
Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, June 1865
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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
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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
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BOX OV 1 ITEM 464 |
Pay voucher of Lieutenant James Shiff, 72nd United
States Colored Infantry, "Copper servant," Aug. 1864
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 466 |
General Orders, No. 6, officer appointments, Corps
d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Aug. 1863
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BOX 5 ITEM 467 |
Requisition for fuel, 2nd Regiment, Corps
d'Afrique, Six Mile Island, Sept. 1863
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BOX OV 1 ITEM 468 |
Receipt roll of hired African-American men paid $20
a month at Brandy Station, Va., Jan. 1864
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BOX 5 ITEM 469 |
The Hampton Album by Frances Johnston, 1966
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 472 |
Sutlers Issues of the Civil War, United States Colored Troops tokens, by James Curto, 1959
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BOX 5 ITEM 473 |
Officer's commission, vellum, 29th United States
Colored Troops, signed by C. W. Foster and C. Dana, Aug. 1864
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 475 |
Special Orders, No. 10, Carrollton, La., appointing
Captain E. I. Wage, 20th United States Colored Troops, military provost, June 1864
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BOX 5 ITEM 476 |
Sharecropper's contract, to share one-third crop,
5 Oct.
1867
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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
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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 |
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BOX 5 ITEM 479 |
Court order, sale of Negro, Cocke v. Pucket, Nov. 1773
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BOX OV 1 ITEM 480 |
Poem, southern viewpoint, "Our Opinion," white
child and her black "mammy" talk about President Lincoln and freedom, undated |
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 482 |
Clothing requisition, 8th Regiment, Corps
d'Afrique, Captain Keating, Company K, 1 Feb. 1864
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 484 |
New clothing requisition, 78th United States
Colored Infantry, Captain Frank Nagel, Company B, Thibidaux, La., 10 June
1865
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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
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 487 |
General Orders, No. 136, Headquarters Dept. of the
Gulf, New Orleans, La., reference to "mixed troops," 31 Aug. 1864
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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
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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
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BOX OV 4 ITEM 490 |
Muster roll, Company F, 25th United States Colored
Troops, mark signed with "X," Feb.-Apr. 1864
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BOX 5 ITEM 491 |
Receipt, Millikens Bend, La., Second Lieutenant
Hagens, 8th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Sept. 1863
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 493 |
Letter from Union soldier, Marine Hospital, La.,
describes an African-American wedding, undated |
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 495 |
Recollection of a Colored Troop, by Major John MacMurray, 6th United States Colored Troops, 1916
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BOX 5 ITEM 496 |
Broadside poem with chromolithograph illustration,
"Darkey Conscript," undated |
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BOX 5 ITEM 497 |
Officer's commission on vellum, 2nd United States
Colored Troops, signed by C.W. Foster and C. Dana, Oct. 1864
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BOX 5 ITEM 498 |
Letter, soldier to mother, Spanish Fort, Ala., re
African-American troops and the torpedo, 8 Apr. 1865
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BOX 5 ITEM 499 |
Letter, soldier to Lizzie and Annie, before
Petersburg, concerning "beast Butler" and war weariness, 28 Aug. 1864 . |
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 501 |
Letter, soldier to family in Ohio, Martinsburg,
Virginia, not wanting to fight for "niggers," 27 Jan. 1863
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BOX 5 ITEM 502 |
Letter, soldier to Flora in Michigan, re dinner
with corn cakes by "neighboring lady of color," Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 1865
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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
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BOX 5 ITEM 504 |
Dick Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes, with music, New York, 1889
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