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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 323, War Department, each cook to have two under-cooks of African descent, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 11, handwritten, Headquarters, Camp Ullman, recruiting African Americans on plantations; anyone interfering will be reported to Headquarters, May 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Form No. 5, James W. Simms, Company K, 32nd United States Colored Troops, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Certificate of Service, C. Arnum, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 1890

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Honor Roll, Company A, 15th New York infantry, 369th Regiment, fought under French, 1917

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sheet music, "Babylon is Fallen!" by Henry C. Work, and "Abraham's Daughter," as sung by Bryant's Minstrels, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, handwritten, "The Little Contraband," n.d

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from teacher in Freedmen's Camp, Pine Buff, Ark., children stealing everything from one another, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, southern viewpoint, "Our Opinion," white child and her black "mammy" talk about President Lincoln and freedom, undated

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, "Kingdom Coming" (song), undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, "Sir, Please to pay Prince Negro two pounds for his clothing destroyed by the enemy," state of Connecticut, signed with "x," 28 June 1777

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Jack Yale, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, Caster Freeman served as a private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Camp Highland, Jan. 1780

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Connecticut line of the Continental Army, Prince George, June 1781

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, Middletown, Conn.?, re shoes and stockings, Dec. 1781

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Caster Freeman, Mar. 1782

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Lyons, Oct. 1782

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Prince Dennison, Mar. 1782

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Freeman, Mar. 1783

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Abraham Pharoah served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780-1785

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt to Ovid Negro, Hartford, trucking six bundles of hay from the waterside, 1787

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher for Frank Freeman, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1782-1789

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Light Artillery, African-American servant, 31 July 1818

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant, 27 July 1818

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Light Artillery, African-American servants, Oct. 1818

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 1st Lieutenant Webb, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant Ceasar, June 1818

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant, 31 Dec. 1819

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Mr. Slade on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Dec. 1835

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside poem with chromolithograph illustration, "Darkey Conscript," undated

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: House of Representatives document no. 282, 27th Congress, 2nd session, letter from the secretary of the navy re African Americans in the navy, Aug. 1842

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Blank form, slave for hire, 1850s

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of Captain Romanzo C. Bailey, 8th United States Colored Troops, correspondence, certificates, pension papers, 1863-1920

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Signature, John R. Lynch, House of Representatives, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside advertising a free military school for command of colored troops, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay vouchers (four), state of Connecticut; Juba Freeman had served on the Continental line, 1782-1789

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, state of Connecticut, Bristol Cesar who served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, in upper left "cold Nigar," 1780-1789

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate letter concerning slaves, General Mosely, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War documents, three pay vouchers and a financial paper with notes, Cuff Freeman had served on the Continental line for Connecticut, 1780-1789 , undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter and related documents of Private David Lee, Company C, 115th United States Colored Troops. He was given a pass to visit Washington City yet arrested by the city police and jailed, 1865-1866

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Union soldier, Marine Hospital, La., describes an African-American wedding, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, "The Colored Volunteer" (song), chromolithograph, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate ordinance concerning convicted slave named Richard, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Edisto Island, S.C., signed "Civilian," Mar. 1866

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 14, 38th United States Colored Infantry, private detailed as sharpshooter to report to headquarters, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt, "on hire of servant girl," S. Snodgrass, Mar. 1849

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Business card of Levi Coffin, general agent, American Missionary Association and Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, circa 1850

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Honorable Daniel Webster on Slavery, Boston, Mass., 1850

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Tax form, Frederick County, 1858

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt for hire of servant girl, Oct. 1859

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Tax form, Frederick County, 1860

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax in Scott County for slaves, 1860

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, slave appraisal, Mississippi, Jan. 1861

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, receipt for loss of slave described in item 25, from state, $1,800, 1863-1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax receipt, 1861

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to father and mother, Camp Seward (abolition), Lincoln Avenue No. 10, Santa Rosa, Fla., detailed escape of slaves, Mar. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, Governor Vance's message to the General Assembly of North Carolina, slaves to be employed for state defense, slaves taxed, Nov. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate letter, Flint Hill, what to do with slaves if Yankees come, Aug. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter of J. W. Smith, 156th New York, "Their is mor Blacks than their is wites their is good many slaves," 13 Dec. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, receipt for slave work on fortifications, 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Report by Mr. Noel, House of Representatives, "Emancipation of the Slaves of the Rebels," June 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate will of Alabama citizen giving his slaves to family, May 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from H. R. Gamble, governor of Missouri, to the House of Representatives, emancipation in Missouri, June 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 27, War Department, military men and the return of fugitives, Mar. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher of Lieutenant John Shaw, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, African-American servant, 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: "Confiscation of Rebel Property," remarks of Owen Lovejoy delivered in the House of Representatives, Apr. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Document re hiring out of slaves owned by Governor Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee, circa 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher, Thomas Stillwell, surgeon, 8th New York, two black servants, Aug. 1862

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, J. Dickson, 27th Connecticut, Dr. Wright "hanged for killing a officer while drilling a Company of niggers in the street of Norfolk," 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 1, Headquarters Corps d'Afrique, Louisville, Ky., June 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 19, Headquarters 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, officers detailed to board of examination for positions in "African Regiments," May 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, orderly sergeant Charles W. Manuell, 55th Massachusetts band, camp near Fort Spindia, N.C., two pages in pencil, speaks of pay, 17 July 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, light servant, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 6, officer appointments, Corps d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Aug. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Washington & General Jackson on Negro Soldiers, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from T. Clark, 4th United States Colored Cavalry, "to go immediately to Plaquemine with every available man to quell a mutiny among troops ... during absence clothing stolen," 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pamphlet, Free Military School for the Applicants for Commands of Colored Troops, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, General Orders, No. 25, Richmond, Va., rights of owners of slaves taken by or employed in the army, 6 Mar. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Owen Lovejoy, 37th Congress, House of Representatives stationery, "a colored woman can draw a pension for a son killed in battle, who had been regularly enlisted in the Services of the U.S.," 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, affidavit by a slave owner's overseer who was in charge of Negroes, to be used for loss of slave, July 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Robert G. Shaw, 54th Massachusetts (colored) to Colonel Lee, 20th Massachusetts, asking for noncommissioned officers to be transferred to his command, some of whom were killed or wounded at Fort Wagner, Apr. 1863

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, General Orders, No. 100, Richmond, Va., court-martial, "failed to procure negroes," 23 July 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Note from Provost Marshall Office, Newbern, N.C., transportation for laundress, 1st North Carolina Colored to Fort Monroe, Oct. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Release for contraband from Baton Rouge, La., penitentiary, 5 Apr. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Booklet, Views of Judge Woodword and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South, by Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, soldier to family in Ohio, Martinsburg, Virginia, not wanting to fight for "niggers," 27 Jan. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, receipt, Lynchburg, Va., received the slave "Washington" to work on fortification at and near this city, Oct. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from soldier, 115th New York, comments on African-American soldiers from Boston 54th Massachusetts?, June 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Volunteer enlistment, Arkansas, for Joseph Logan, 2nd Regiment Kansas Colored Infantry, Oct. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery, by William Whiting, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, raid of 54th Massachusetts and 2nd South Carolina, Combahee River, S.C., 5 June 1863