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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta passes the Army medical exam against the wishes of white board members]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Series of letters regarding Alexander Augusta&#039;s desire to serve as a Surgeon in what would become the 7th USCI. Augusta initially writes Lincoln and Stanton requesting an appointment from Toronto and eventually travels to D.C. to sit for the officer&#039;s exam over the objections of white officers and physicians. Contains letters from Augusta, Surg. W. Moss, and M. Clymer as well as relevant endorsements.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/7/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta reports on his ejection from a segregated streetcar in Washington D.C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surgeon Alexander Augusta describes his ejection from a streetcar for being Black. &quot;I attempted to enter the car, and he pulled me out and ejected me from the platform. The consequence was I had to walk the whole distance through rain and mud, and was considerably detained past the hour for my attendance at Court.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/8/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta writes about the discrimination his wife endured on the train from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.T. Augusta (surgeon, 7th USCT) to Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace (cmdg Middle Department &amp; 8th Army Corps) alleging that the Baltimore &amp; Ohio R.R. charges Black passengers the same fare yet forces them into the front car of the train, which is filled with tobacco smoke and all sorts of people. &quot;It makes no difference how respectable a colored lady may be; how disagreable smoking may be to her; or how ill she might be, the employees about the depot will not permit her to enter another car, and should she by chance get into another and is found there, she is rudely thrust out.&quot; Gives exmample of his wife and another Black woman expelled from their car and forced into the smoking car. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/20/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta writes to Senator Henry Wilson regarding his low pay as a Black soldier despite holding the rank of major]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[B-47]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dr. Alexander T. Augusta to Sec. of War--Surgeon Alexander T. Augusta was in the army nearly one year until he was transferred to Baltimore, MD. At his new post the paymaster insisted that he was to get $7 month, just as all Black troops do. He wrote to Sen Wilson for assistance and soon received directions for the paymaster to pay him according to his rank as a surgeon. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[9/28/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Case of white women hissing at Black troops in Baltimore]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Lt. Col. John Woolley (prov. Mar.) to Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace (com. Middle dept) reporting that some ladies were hissing at the passing of colored troops on Exeter Street. They endeavored to make a dog bark at the troops to &quot;show further their sentiments.&quot; Woolley would like to take some action (a fine) so that &quot;such people feel that they cannot sneer and hiss at their government or its troops without being brought to account for it.&quot; Includes statements of witnesses to the incident.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[4/17/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/49">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Commander of a Black refugee camp in Washington, D.C., refuses to assign Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta to duty]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James J. Ferree refuses to assign Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta to duty at camp in Washington D.C. as required in Special Order 109.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[5/16/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/25">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Matilda Johnson petitions the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau for the return of her children and household goods, after which the agency waived her right to her children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Series of complaints around property rights and apprenticeship for Black residents of Anne Arundel County. Of special interest are the two complaints by Matilda Johnson relating to her children and household goods being held illegally by by James Boyle. Resolution of the case indicates that while the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau had intervened to have her children returned, Boyle was successful in getting permission to retrieve them under previous apprenticeship proceedings. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black Baltimore resident Anthony Armstrong applies to raise a Black militia to defend the city]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[7/10/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/7">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black pastor Benjman Howard reports on having been arrested and sold by the state of Maryland for preaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[A-9745]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Benjman Howard, apparently intended for D.C. Assistant Commissioner C. H. Howard, reporting that he had been a preacher in Annapolis and bought a house there in 1857. Was arrested in 1862 for preaching and jailed until Feb. 1863 when he was sold away as punishment for 15 years with a mandate to never return to the state of MD. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/27/1866]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Ann Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/57">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black resident of Baltimore seeks help retrieving property taken by the family of his former enslaver]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Black resident of Baltimore L Meads to Gen. Lew Wallace reporting having been turned off of his property by the nephew of his former enslaver and requesting advice on how he might retrieve his property.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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