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- Tags: Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Adams Davis, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
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
A Voice from Rebel Prisons, 1865
Tags: Battle Description, Prisons, Race relations, Soldiers
The Fighting in Florida, March 7, 1864
THE FIGHTING IN FLORIDA. The Savannah papers of Saturday furnish us with some additional and very interesting accounts of the progress and details of the fighting in Florida. The Republicanaccount says: THE RECENT SKIRMISH - THE ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. An…
Tags: Battle Description, Freedpeople, Soldiers
"Negro Troops in the Civil War", 1887
At a moment when the bitterness of race prejudice is
shown in the recent school controversies in Kansas, Indi-
ana, and Ohio, reminding us of the old Free States that we
cannot consistently reproach our brethren of the old Slave
States with…
Tags: Memory, Race relations, Soldiers, Veterans
"Shall I Trust these Men, and Not this Man?", August 5, 1865
Tags: Race relations, Soldiers, Veterans
Civil War Service Record of Charles Jones, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Order by the Commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, 1863
Fort Monroe, Va., December 5th, 1863.
General Orders No. 46. The recruitment of colored troops has become the settled purpose of the Government. It is therefore the duty of every officer and soldier to aid in carrying out that purpose, by every…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Soldiers
Recruitment Poster for "Color'd Men", 1863
COLOR’D MEN WANTED!
Bounty, $602.
Cashdown, 350.
Besides State, and United States pay, &c.
Recruits will be mustered into Colored Regiments.
APPLY TO
James S. Henry;
At Recruiting Office, Second & Bridge Ave.
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…