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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08358 Author/Creator: Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Broadside Date: 1 November 1864 Pagination: Order a Copy

"God save the republic. Never in field or tent scorn a black regiment." Issued "in commemoration of emancipation in Maryland." With George Boker's Poem 'The Black Regiment', and vignettes of colored troops in battle, slaves on the auction block, quotes from J. Q. Adams, Andrew Johnson, The Bible, Jefferson, Washington, P. Henry, Jackson, etc. Published in Philadelphia: Rigwalt and Brown

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