| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|
House of Representatives, 52nd Congress, report.
no. 1984, Captain Beuter, 4th United States Colored Cavalry,
1868
(continued) |
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 349 |
Letter re deserter John Beard, 30th United States
Colored Infantry, Nov. 1864
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 350 |
Poem, handwritten, "The Little
Contraband," n.d. |
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 351-371 |
Documents re 10th United States Colored Artillery
(Heavy), Fort Macomb, La., quartermaster ordnance documents,
1865-1866
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 372 |
Savings of company M, 10th United States Colored
Artillery (Heavy), Feb. 1866
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 373-375 |
Documents of 29th Connecticut Colored Volunteers,
in the field, 1865
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 390 |
Monthly quartermaster return of clothing, etc.,
53rd United States Colored Troops, Feb. 1865
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 393 |
Invoice of clothing, (new) Company B, 53rd United
States Colored Infantry, May 1865
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 397 |
Pension certificate of Henry Fretz, 3rd Regiment
United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry, 1898
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
Digital content available
|
BOX OV 1 ITEM 409 |
Pay voucher, officer, 9th Regiment United States
Colored Troops, black servant, 1865
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 410 |
General Orders, No. 44, Navy Department,
court-martial of black sailors, Hampton Roads, Va., Dec.
1864
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 415 |
Report, Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs, to the House
of Representatives, Feb. 1865
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 416 |
Confederate document, slave appraisal, Mississippi,
Jan. 1861
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 417 |
Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher,
undated |
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 4 ITEM 421 |
Report by Mr. Noel, House of Representatives,
"Emancipation of the Slaves of the Rebels," June
1862
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 423 |
Confederate document, message from the president to
the House and Senate, Richmond, Va., 1864
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 424 |
Report, House of Representatives, emancipation and
colonization, July 1862
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 425 |
Confederate ordinance concerning convicted slave
named Richard, undated |
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 427 |
Marriage license, Kentucky, colored, Oct.
1902
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 428 |
Receipt, "on hire of servant girl," S. Snodgrass,
Mar. 1849
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 429 |
Tax form, Frederick County,
1858
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 430 |
Tax form, Frederick County,
1860
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 431 |
Confederate tax form, Amherst County,
1863
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 432 |
Confederate tax receipt,
1861
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 433 |
Confederate letter concerning slaves, General
Mosely, undated |
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 434 |
Confederate letter, Flint Hill, what to do with
slaves if Yankees come, Aug. 1862
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 435 |
Receipt for hire of servant girl, Oct.
1859
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 440 |
Confederate will of Alabama citizen giving his
slaves to family, May 1862
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX OV 1 ITEM 443 |
Confederate payroll to slave masters for use of
slaves at Charleston, S.C., Jan.-Apr.
1864
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 460 |
General Orders, No. 32, Headquarters, Southern
Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, July
1865
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 461 |
General Orders, No. 28, Headquarters, Southern
Division of Louisiana, court-martial of African-American soldiers, June
1865
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX OV 1 ITEM 464 |
Pay voucher of Lieutenant James Shiff, 72nd United
States Colored Infantry, "Copper servant," Aug.
1864
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 466 |
General Orders, No. 6, officer appointments, Corps
d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Aug. 1863
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 467 |
Requisition for fuel, 2nd Regiment, Corps
d'Afrique, Six Mile Island, Sept. 1863
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 476 |
Sharecropper's contract, to share one-third crop,
5 Oct. 1867
|
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 479 |
Court order, sale of Negro, Cocke v. Pucket, Nov. 1773
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 482 |
Clothing requisition, 8th Regiment, Corps
d'Afrique, Captain Keating, Company K, 1 Feb.
1864
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX OV 4 ITEM 490 |
Muster roll, Company F, 25th United States Colored
Troops, mark signed with "X," Feb.-Apr.
1864
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 491 |
Receipt, Millikens Bend, La., Second Lieutenant
Hagens, 8th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Sept.
1863
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 493 |
Letter from Union soldier, Marine Hospital, La.,
describes an African-American wedding, undated |
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 495 |
Recollection of a Colored Troop, by Major John
MacMurray, 6th United States Colored Troops, 1916
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 496 |
Broadside poem with chromolithograph illustration,
"Darkey Conscript," undated |
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 498 |
Letter, soldier to mother, Spanish Fort, Ala., re
African-American troops and the torpedo, 8 Apr.
1865
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 499 |
Letter, soldier to Lizzie and Annie, before
Petersburg, concerning "beast Butler" and war weariness, 28 Aug.
1864 . |
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 501 |
Letter, soldier to family in Ohio, Martinsburg,
Virginia, not wanting to fight for "niggers," 27 Jan.
1863
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Digital content available
|
BOX 5 ITEM 504 |
Dick Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes, with
music, New York, 1889
|
|
Digital content available
|