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

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	Letter to secretary of war from soldier's father asking the secretary not to accept son's request for resignation, 9 Feb. 1865 (continued)
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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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