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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sailor Discharge, mulatto, landsman, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sailor Dischar...

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sailor Discharge, Negro, ordinary seaman, 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, 1863
Colored troops disembarking / motion picture

Colored troops disembarking / motion picture

"The steamer "Mascotte" has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2d Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore. Tide is very high, and the gang plank is extra steep; and it is laughable to see the extreme... More

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: 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: 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: 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: Certificate of Service, C. Arnum, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 1890
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, "Kingdom Coming" (song), undated
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: 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: Pay voucher, Willis Relick (contraband), for services as teamster in the division supply train, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps for Sept. 1862, Mar. 1863
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Account and receipts for services rendered as manager on the Miles Taylor plantation, signed by George Hanks, 1863
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Requisition for fuel, 2nd Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, Six Mile Island, Sept. 1863
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt from Steamship United States for $25 from Lieutenant Scofield for trip from New Orleans, La., to New York, Aug. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Discharge papers of Lieutenant H. Scofield, 88th United States Colored Troops, Port Hudson, La., discontinuance of regiment, Aug. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, "pleased to hear that you have received a commission in relation to getting still higher one in a colored regiment, it will do no harm," 28 Mar. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Claim for pay, Private James W. Simms, Company K, 32nd United States Colored Troops, 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Monthly return of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, 77th United States Colored Infantry, New Orleans, La., new equipment, June 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, New York, "The Colored Hospital," p. 680, Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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,"
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Discharge, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, born in Virginia, 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 68, surplus ordnance, 67th United States Colored Infantry, Port Hudson, La., 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 199, War Department, court-martial of private from Corps d'Afrique, sentence remitted, May 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: State of Maryland bounty, Joseph A. Scott, Company E, 39th United States Colored Troops, died 4 Feb. 1864 while prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C., 2 Apr. 1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Marriage license, Sumter County, Georgia, 1896
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Ethnic History in Pennsylvania, bibliography, 1974
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher, undated
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 receipt, 1861
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 States Navy, receipt for hire of African-American man for thirty four days, July 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: 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: 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: General Orders, No. 58, Headquarters, New Orleans, La., governor of Louisiana on the conscription of African Americans for the Confederacy, 11 Oct. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, "pleased to hear that you have received a commission in relation to getting still higher one in a colored regiment, it will do no harm," 28 Mar. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, report of the state of South Carolina and receipt for loss of slave, John, at Sullivan's Island, 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Camp Casey, to 30th United States Colored Troops, deserter in camp of 43rd United States Colored Troops, signed by Colonel Yeoman, Aug. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of the 29th Connecticut Colored, in the field, 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Provost Marshal document re George Blackson, white man had him enlisted in regiment, was captured by rebels and made to work on breastwork, remained two months, when six rebels deserted he left with them and arrived at City Point, Va., in custo
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter by Colonel Trowbridge, 33rd United States Colored Troops (1st S.C. Infantry), returning Confederate soldiers attacking or killing his men, Dec. 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Headquarters, 15th United States Colored Infantry, give the bearer the accounts of her dead husband, a private of this regiment, June 1865
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 Infantry, African-American servant, 27 July 1818
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax receipt, 1861
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: Confederate States Navy, receipt for hire of African-American man for thirty four days, July 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: Letter, soldier to family in Ohio, Martinsburg, Virginia, not wanting to fight for "niggers," 27 Jan. 1863
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Alexander Hayward, 24th Massachusetts, before Petersburg, Va., concerning presidential election - "country first and negroes afterwards," Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 44, Navy Department, court-martial of black sailors, Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, New York, "The Colored Hospital," p. 680, Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, receipt for the medical services of a slave, Amherst City, Va., 20 Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 53, 38th United States Colored Troops, in the field, appointed noncommissioned officer, private, Company E, Dec. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Payroll for Mobile & Ohio Railroad, hire of slaves, 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Muster roll, Company A, 25th United States Colored Troops, contains notes on leaving Camp William Penn, transport ship was condemned, Feb.-Apr. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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,"
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 19, 38th United States Colored Troops, in the field, Virginia, private detailed for regimental pioneer corps, Jan. 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Quarterly Return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Corpus Christi, Tex., enfield rifled muskets in company, 122nd United States Colored Infantry, Sept. 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents re 10th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Fort Macomb, La., quartermaster ordnance documents, 1865-1866
Additional regiments of artillery : speech of Hon. George H. White of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Monday, March 7, 1898

Additional regiments of artillery : speech of Hon. George H. White of ...

White, an African American congressman from North Carolina, pleas for change in U.S. Army regulations to permit blacks into artillery regiments. He reviews the history of African Americans in the U.S. and says ... More

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: 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: 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: Letter, Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., surgeon in charge, refers to financial matters of Private Charles Polk, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Lieutenant Aleck Hayward, 24th Massachusetts, to Lizzie Wilkens, Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of 29th Connecticut Colored Volunteers, in the field, 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Charleston, S.C., Mar. 1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Affidavit, proof of marriage, Maryland bounty papers, 9th United States Colored Troops, private killed in battle of Deep Bottom, 1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Report of Brevet Major General O. O. Howard, Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, to the secretary of war, 1869
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: Letter, 28th United States Colored Troops, enlisted man, B. F. Trail, Camp Casey, Arlington Heights, Va., mentions Robert E. Lee's slaves, describes barracks, May 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Captain R. Buckley, 197th Pennsylvania Volunteers from Rock Island Prison, Rock Island, Ill., concerning African-American regiment guarding rebel prisoners, Sept. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Report to the Senate submitted by Sumner to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, plus other acts, Feb. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Affidavit of officer, 13th Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, went on recruiting detail in Baton Rouge and when he returned found that clothing he was responsible for had been stolen by contrabands, Apr. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders and sick statistics, Charles G. Merrill, Surgeon, 22nd United States Colored Troops, 1864-1865
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: 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: Letter, raid of 54th Massachusetts and 2nd South Carolina, Combahee River, S.C., 5 June 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: Letter, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase from Daniel Ammen, Feb. 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders and sick statistics, Charles G. Merrill, Surgeon, 22nd United States Colored Troops, 1864-1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Freedmen's Record, Boston, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Official Army Information Digest, concerning medals, Sept. 1963
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Freedmen's Record, Boston, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1865
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of the 29th Connecticut Colored, in the field, 1865
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: Report to the Senate submitted by Sumner to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, plus other acts, Feb. 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of the 29th Connecticut Colored, in the field, 1865
Address by Daniel Ullmann, LL.D., before the Soldier's and Sailor's Union of the State of New York, on the organization of colored troops and the regeneration of the South : delivered at Albany, February 5, 1868

Address by Daniel Ullmann, LL.D., before the Soldier's and Sailor's Un...

Ullmann, a white officer, explains how at Lincoln's direction he organized and armed freed slaves in Louisiana during the Civil War, and he gives his assessment of African American troops based on this experien... More

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents re 10th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Fort Macomb, La., quartermaster ordnance documents, 1865-1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Echoes of the Bugle, circa 1976
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: World War I documents of Lieutenant Goodlett found in his officer's tunic, 370th Infantry, 93rd Infantry Division, 1918 , undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Honorable Daniel Webster on Slavery, Boston, Mass., 1850

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Hono...

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