Tag Archives: United States Colored Troops

negotiating reconstruction?

It was reported that the Mississippi legislature would give freedmen the right to testify in court if President Johnson withdrew federal (mostly colored?) troops From The New-York Times November 23, 1865: FROM MISSISSIPPI.; Negroes Allowed to Testify for their Own … Continue reading

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elective*

This Thomas Nast cartoon was published in the August 5, 1865 issue of Harper’s Weekly. You can read more about it at the Library of Congress: “Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging … Continue reading

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actions speak louder

The following editorial might very well have been published nearer the time in May 1863 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the Woman’s National Loyal League (or the Women’s Loyal National League) in New York City. Nevertheless, … Continue reading

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sigh of relief

A conservative, Democrat paper reprinted an article maintaining that the black troops that fought for the North at Port Hudson were not the super warriors and/or super savages that some initial reports indicated. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper … Continue reading

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U.S.C.T.

150 years ago today a Bureau of Colored Troops was ordered by the federal War Department: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 143 WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, Washington, May 22, 1863. I — A Bureau is established in the Adjutant General’s Office … Continue reading

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Evaluating Ullman

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 4 (or 3), 1862: A military Politician. –Among the latest arrivals of Yankee officers is Daniel Ullman, formerly the great gun of the Know Nothings of New York. He was operating on the line … Continue reading

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