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1861-1865
Confederate acts concerning prisioners of war and the use of slaves or free negroes for the war [Decimalized .01-.10]
GLC08979
15 February 1864
Confederate States of America. Congress
Joint Resolutions in reference to the treatment of colored troops
Confederate act resolves that the abolition of slavery is against the rules of war and that former slaves who are captured while fighting for the Union will be returned to their masters. States "emancipation of the negro slaves within the...
GLC08979.05
31 March 1864
Fleetwood, Christian, fl. 1864
to Mary Gibbs
Civil War letter of one of first African-American soldiers to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and the first honored by the Smithsonian, to "Mother Gibbs." "…the expedition brought in altogether 502 contrabands. I had the good fortune of being...
GLC09405
1883
Johnson, Fry, & Co., fl. 1825-1873
Thomas Jefferson
One print of President Thomas Jefferson dated 1883. Engraved by Johnson, Fry & Co.
GLC08878.1198
June 28, 1780
Home, James, fl. 1780
to William Home
James, a British soldier aboard the Europe, writes to his father. Discusses the mail. States he has been a week in [New] York and Long Island. Mentions that German mercenary General Wilhelm Knyphausen took Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Comments that...
GLC01450.045
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