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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: Letter of J. W...

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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate do...

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: Report by Mr. ...

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: Confederate wi...

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: Letter from H....

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: General Orders...

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: Confederate do...

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: Pay voucher, T...

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 do...

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, raid o...

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: Letter, J. Dic...

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...

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: General Orders...

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: Letter, orderl...

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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher, 1...

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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Ro...

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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: Confederate do...

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: Note from Prov...

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: Release for co...

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: Rules for the ...

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: Booklet, Views...

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, soldie...

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: Confederate do...

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 from so...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Office of Superintendent of Negro Labor, New Orleans, La., report to General Banks on use of four hundred free African Americans for cultivation of thirteen plantations, May 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Office...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 390, officers of the Medical Department in charge of hospitals for blacks, Dec. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax form, Amherst County, 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate ta...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate passport for African American, War Department, Richmond, pass Billy Smith to Petersburg, Va., subject to the discretion of military authorities, 4 June 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate pa...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt, Millikens Bend, La., Second Lieutenant Hagens, 8th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Sept. 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt, Milli...

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: Pay voucher, W...

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: Account and re...

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: Requisition fo...

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 Orders...

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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Washin...

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 from T....

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: Pamphlet, Free...

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 do...

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: Confederate do...

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: Letter from Ow...

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: Confederate do...

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: Letters, Priva...

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: Volunteer enli...

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: War Powers of ...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 3, Headquarters Corps d'Afrique, Six-Mile Island, Ohio River, June 1863

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders...

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: Confederate St...

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, 28th U...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Final statement of J. Bruce, 77th United States Colored Infantry, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Final statemen...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt of issues to 30th United States Colored Infantry, near Petersburg, Va., Nov. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt of iss...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Final statement and form no. 5 for Norman Johnson, Company A, 54th Massachusetts Colored Volunteers, able to sign name, paid at $13 per month, disability discharge, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Final statemen...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, message from the president to the House and Senate, Richmond, Va., 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate do...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's commission on vellum, 2nd United States Colored Troops, signed by C.W. Foster and C. Dana, Oct. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's comm...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Muster roll, Company F, 25th United States Colored Troops, mark signed with "X," Feb.-Apr. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Muster roll, C...

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: Letter, Camp C...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate documents, duplicate receipts for loss of slave while working on military fortification in South Carolina, $1,000 and $1,800, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate do...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sworn statement of Captain William Wells, 47th United States Colored Infantry, concerning James Welch, was in 15th Iowa, hospital steward in 8th Regiment of Louisiana Volunteer Infantry of A.D., Vicksburg, Miss., May 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sworn statemen...

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

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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher of Lieutenant James Shiff, 72nd United States Colored Infantry, "Copper servant," Aug. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher of...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 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

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Order No. 2, b...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, testimonials from the 62nd and 67th regiments, United States Colored Infantry, Morganza, La., p. 951, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Sanitary C...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 43, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, refugees seeking admission, Nov. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders...

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: Confederate do...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 6, Headquarters, Recruiting Department, Corps d'Afrique, New Orleans, La., any enlisted man found guilty ... will be punished by wearing a ball and chain, Mar. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Clothing requisition, 8th Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, Captain Keating, Company K, 1 Feb. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Clothing requi...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, soldier to Lizzie and Annie, before Petersburg, concerning "beast Butler" and war weariness, 28 Aug. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, soldie...

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, Captai...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, 13th United States Colored Artillery (Heavy), Bowling Green, Ky., concerning officers recruiting African-American men, Oct. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, 13th U...

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: Muster roll, C...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt roll of hired African-American men paid $20 a month at Brandy Station, Va., Jan. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt roll o...

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: Confederate do...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Ferdinand Ellick, Company A, 31st United States Colored Troops, 4th Division, 2nd Brigade, 9th Army Corps, concerning money, July 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Ferdin...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, 1st Sub District, Department of Negro Affairs, Jan. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, 1st Su...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to Captain Buckley, 197th Pennsylvania, Rock Island Prison, Rock Island, Ill., anti-Lincoln sentiment, African-American camp meeting, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to Capt...

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: Receipt from S...

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: Discharge pape...

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: Letter, "pleas...

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: Claim for pay,...

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: Monthly return...

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: The Sanitary C...

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: Letter, Privat...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, New England Soldier's Relief Association, N.Y., African-American nurse asking about her nephew Charles Harris, Company A, 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry, requesting state aid, May 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, New En...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Payroll for Mobile & Ohio Railroad, hire of slaves, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Payroll for Mo...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Commission for Second Lieutenant Charles Lee, 55th Massachusetts, 10 Dec. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Commission for...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's commission, vellum, 29th United States Colored Troops, signed by C. W. Foster and C. Dana, Aug. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's comm...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Lieutenant A. W. Bartlett, 12th New Hampshire Infantry, suggests that brother apply for commission as assistant surgeon in colored troops, it will be a good position after the war is over, July 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Li...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt for issue of clothing to Private Madison Arharyh, 11th United States Colored Troops, Office Depot Quartermaster, Ft. Smith, Ark., Apr. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt for is...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to Captain D. R. Mussey from Private Craig requesting examination by board to be officer in black regiment, Mar. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to Capt...

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: Letter, Alexan...

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: Affidavit of o...

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, Freedm...

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: General Orders...

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: Special Orders...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, the platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, the...

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: Letter from Li...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 10, Carrollton, La., appointing Captain E. I. Wage, 20th United States Colored Troops, military provost, June 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders...

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: Report to the ...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Black Brigade of Cincinnati, 1864 , by Peter H. Clark

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: The Black Brig...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay Voucher for Captain Harding, Company A, 48th United States Colored Troops, black servant, 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay Voucher fo...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 136, Headquarters Dept. of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., reference to "mixed troops," 31 Aug. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: List of clothing lost, 13th Regiment Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, ordered to New Orleans, La., with thirty-six men, clothing missing when they returned, Mar. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: List of clothi...

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, Engineer Hospital, Mobile, Ala., Tom (slave) admitted and died, Apr. 1864

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate do...

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