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Showing posts with label Contrabands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contrabands. Show all posts
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 22, 1862

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Forenoon we ware on Co drill afternoon on Brigade & battallion drill & Dress perade. Our Capt is poorly in his bed most of the day t...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski: June 1861

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THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, October 21, 1863

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October 21. Yesterday some contrabands from the "main" reported that they overheard a rebel Colonel say that the Chaplain they h...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 24, 1863

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March 24. Tonight the Paul Jones has returned from Palatka, bringing a single contraband, and the intelligence that all the slaves have be...

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 27, 1863

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March 27, 1863. This afternoon our eyes were gladdened by the sight of the Boston and Convoy steaming up the river, but when, instead of a...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 17, 1863

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March 17. We are fairly at work at our legitimate business. The John Adams brought down, last evening, thirty contrabands, ten horses, and...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Speech of Congressman Martin F. Conway: “The War: A Slave Union or a Free?” December 12, 1861

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Speech of Hon. Martin F. Conway, of Kansas, delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, December 12, 1861. Revised by the Author. ...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Thomas A. Scott to Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sherman, August 14, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, October 14 , 1861 . Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN,           Commanding Expedition to the Southern Coast: SIR: In conducti...