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- Tags: Enlistment
Civil War Service Record of Elias Moore, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Edward Bell, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Charles Jones, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Adams Davis, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Amnesty Petition of J. B. Carpenter, August 15, 1865
North Carolina
Rutherford County
To His Excellency Andrew Johnson President of the Unite States of America
The petition of J. B. Carpenter a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged twenty seven years, last June and by occupation a…
“Two Years with a Colored Regiment: A Woman’s Experience," 1898
Reminiscences of our civil war have been given to the public image again and again, and our most able men have recited the details of the great battles and stirring events. But there are few records of the experiences of women in that war. This…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Recollections of My Slavery Days, ca. 1863
I I have lived through the greatest epoch in history, having been born August 10, 1835, at Newbern, North Carolina. That was not so many years, you see, after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the winning of the Revolutionary War.…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
"Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army in North Carolina," 1864
"I commenced my work with the freed people of color, in North Carolina, at Roanoke Island, soon after the battle of the 8th of February, 1862, which resulted so gloriously for our country.
A party of fifteen or twenty of these loyal blacks, men,…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
"ESCAPING UNION OFFICERS SUCCORED BY SLAVES", March 12, 1864
The sketch on page 164 represents a party of the
Union officers who lately escaped from Libey prison,
under the guidance and protection of negroes living
in the environs of Richmond. They are conducted
by one of these poor slaves to his cabin…
Tags: Battle Description, Enlistment, Freedpeople, Prisons, slavery, Slaves, soldier
"Enlistment of Negroes", August 21, 1862
Enlistment of Negroes It is remarkable how much fuss resolute zealots can make over a very small matter. Two or three of our smaller States, to judge from the noise made in them, are quite convulsed on the subject of enlisting blacks as soldiers to…
Tags: Enlistment, Slavery/Slaves
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Hinton Rowan Helper, 1829-1909
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909), a bitter and staunch racist, was the author of one of the greatest and most influential books on antislavery of his…