circa 1864

Sanders, Jacob, fl. 1864

Manuscript document

Title: [Clothing receipt roll for Company F, 26th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Sergeant Jacob Sanders signs as a witness. Includes the names of soldiers in Company F, led by Captain George England. Each soldier signs with an "x" between the first and last name. Table printed on verso outlines the Secretary of War's recommended allowace of clothing to each soldier per year.

GLC04520

1782-1789

Lawrence, John, 1719-1802

Document signed

Title: [Connecticut pay order no. 3965 for Peter Freeman, an African American who served in the Continental Army]

The first page of this document is partially printed and signed by Lawrence, Connecticut State Treasurer. Confirms that Freeman was to be paid for his service by the State of Connecticut. Contains a list of dates Freemen possibly received money, signed by William Lawrence and Richard Butler on verso. "Peter Freemen" is written across text on verso. Contains stitching (possibly original). Contains a hole in the center roughly one inch in diameter (likely indicative of cancellation).

GLC04710

circa December 1880

Photograph

Title: Stereocard view of Johnsonville, TN before evacuation when threatened by Forrest

Published by Taylor & Huntington, Hatford, Conn. As per printed notice on verso, this image was taken the day before it was evacuated by Federal troops. The First Tennessee colored battery is visible in the mid-ground.

GLC04976

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Black soldiers with artillery guns behind fortifications. [1861-1865 ca.]

Seven black infantrymen stand with cannons behind fortifications. An eighth man is just visible on the left side of the image. In both the far righ and left background are camps with tents. Stamp of the Century company on verso. Numeric notation on verso: "8538"; "110"; and "4."

GLC05111.01.0525

circa 1861-1865

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Black troops of Ferrero's division, on the eastern front at Petersburg

Inscription on verso "Bombproof quarters in Federal camp. 21 black soldiers and one white soldier posed in camp. Numeric notation: "XI - III 802."

GLC05111.01.0419

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Execution of a colored soldier

Black deserter named Johnson hanging on gallows. Title from inscription on verso. Numeric notation: "59."

GLC05111.01.0441

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Execution of a Deserter [stereocard]

Black soldiers appear in the image. Inscription on verso: "War Views. Execution of a Deserter, Alexandria, Va. No. 4014."

GLC05111.01.0828

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Execution of a colored soldier

Image of corpse hanging from gallows. Inscription on verso: "Execution of Johnson, a colored soldier." Numeric notation on verso: "99."

GLC05111.01.0921

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: "Arrival of first negroes in the lines."

Image of fifteen blacks arriving in a covered wagon at a Union Army Camp. Only one of the men in the group is uniformed, and a second soldier is evident, albeit blurred, on a horse to the rear of the wagon. Inscription on verso: "Arrival of first negroes in the lines." Numeric notation on verso: "84."

GLC05111.01.0925

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Wagon fording the Rappahannock River

A wagon, loaded with people and pulled by oxen, is emerging from fording the Rappahannock River, while what appears to be a colored regiment stands guard. Inscription on verso: "Fugitive Negroes fording Rappahannock River." Numeric notation on verso: "83."

GLC05111.01.0926

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: A frame house in Fair Oaks, Virginia

View of a frame house in Fair Oaks, surrounded by over thirty black soldiers. To the upper left of the image, tents are seen as this appears to be the camp of a union army division. Inscription on verso: "Frame house, Fair Oaks, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "56."

GLC05111.01.0877

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Union soldiers dismantling Confederate fort posed on cannon

The image shows Union soldiers sitting on and standing near two cannon, one soldier in the center possibly African-American, with fortification earthworks in the background. Inscription on verso: "Dismantling the Rebel Forts, Petersburg, Va."

GLC05111.01.1011

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Mounting guard in Fort Wagner

The image shows a mounting guard inside Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Black soldiers appear to be occupying the fort, with various other figures standing on a ridge in the distance. Numeric notations on recto: "3491" and "41." Inscription on verso: "'Mounting guard' in Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C." Numeric notations on verso: "60" and "241."

GLC05111.01.1032

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

(Same as #1037.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below them near bombproof quarters. Numeric notation on recto: "804." Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters Fed." Numeric inscriptions on verso: "XI-III" and "804."

GLC05111.01.1033

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Black soldiers filling canteens

The image shows a group of black soldiers with some on horses, others reclining on the ground and a group in line in front of a Sibley tent. Numeric notation on image: "33." Inscription on verso: "Filling their canteens." Numeric notations on verso: "257" "33" and "84."

GLC05111.01.1034

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Camp scene with black soldiers.

The image shows a camp scene in the woods with a black soldier writing near his A-frame tent, other soldiers are reclining and a group stands with their guns in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "219."

GLC05111.01.1035

August 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Cedar Mountain battlefield, Bull Run

The image shows a group of black soldiers reclining and standing amongst the trees on the edge of a battlefield. Numeric notation on image: "504." Inscriptions on verso: "Cedar Mountain Battlefield West View Aug. 62" and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "504" and "91."

GLC05111.01.1036

1864

Photograph

Title: Bombproof quarters for black soldiers, Petersburg

(Same as #1033.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below near bombproof quarters. Numeric notations on recto: "804" and "152." Inscription on verso: "Making coffee on the lines before Petersburg, Va. 1864." Numeric notation on verso: "152."

GLC05111.01.1037

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

The image shows bombproof quarters with various black soldiers sitting, and others standing in the distance with their guns. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters. Federal." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "805."

GLC05111.01.1039

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Black soldiers manning a cannon

The image shows a group of 5 black soldiers manning a cannon along a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "51."

GLC05111.01.1042

20 October 1863

Casey, Silas, 1807-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Cullen Bryant

General Casey, who served as president of the Board for the Examination of Candidates for Officers of African American troops, encloses an article which he cut from the New York Evening Post (not included). Informs Bryant, editor of the Post, that assertions made by the newspaper regarding the Board were false. States that Colonel Bowman, in charge of the Board during Casey's absence, also attests that the Post's allegations were false. Reports "The objectionable part of the article, will I fear have a tendency to keep persons of true merit from presenting themselves for Examination."…

GLC05027

1 November 1865

Eaton, Joseph Horace, 1815-1896

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frank M. Etting

Brevet Brigadier General Eaton, paymaster, writes to Colonel Etting, Chief Paymaster in Baltimore, Maryland. Discusses the question of bounty due to loyal owners of slaves. Marked "Confidential" at top. Written on War Department, Paymaster General's Office stationery.

GLC05031

14 December 1863

Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 1825-1888

Letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Halleck

Gillmore, commanding the Department of the South, discusses the measures for improving the condition of African Americans in his department with Halleck, United States General-in-Chief. States "The wisdom of the course pursued, (under my uniform rule to treat the white and the colored soldier alike,) has been fully vindicated upon the field of battle and in the trenches. Every vestige of the prejudice and ill feeling, which existed, between the white and the colored troops ... has disappeared under the excitement of an active campaign ... " States that the troops in the Department of the…

GLC05034

1863-1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: [General orders, 1863, no. 1-400 (3 vols), and 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)]

Bound copies of general orders for 1863 and 1864 printed by the Government Printing Office. Includes Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863 #1), "Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of their garrisons" (1863 #45), Lincoln's proclamation "Respecting soldiers absent without leave" (1863 #58), orders "In respect to the regulating of intercourse with the insurrectionary states..." (1863 #100). Finally, concerning Black military troops, some of them recently freemen, "A Bureau is established... relating to the organization of colored troops" (1863 # 143). Volume 1, 2,…

GLC05061

1864

United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1864)

Book

Title: [House report no. 65 regarding the Fort Pillow massacre and no. 67 regarding returned prisoners of war]

Contains a full report of the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, based on an investigation of the battle itself, as well as the operations of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest "and his command immediately preceding and subsequent to that horrible transaction." Includes testimony from soldiers present at the battle, who witnessed Forrest's violations of the conduct of war, including shooting unarmed Union troops following their surrender. Contains the testimony of Lieutenant Mack J. Leaming, who wrote a detailed account of the events of Fort Pillow in 1893 (refer to…

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