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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Charges brought against the commander of a white Maryland regiment for interfering with Black enlistment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Service record of Col. James Wallace, 1st E.S. Md. Vol. Inf., containing a witness statement by Col. William Birney regarding the interference by Wallace of Black recruitment in Maryland, who wrote that Wallace termed Black enlistment &quot;&#039;stealing&#039; and &#039;high handed robbery&#039; and the enlistment of his own slave as an &#039;outrage upon him perpetrated while he was serving his country.&#039;&quot; The file also includes charges drawn up against Wallace for the same, and his resignation letter. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/14/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Salsbury, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/67">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Officers collect evidence that the commander of a white Maryland regiment interfered with Black enlistment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Service record of Col. James Wallace, 1st E.S. Md. Vol. Inf., containing testimony regarding the interference by Wallace of Black recruitment in Maryland.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/5/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Salsbury, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/66">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;A Soldier Friend&quot; reports on an apparent scheme by Army officers to defraud Black soldiers of their bounty claims]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/8/1866]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/65">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black mother Delia Fry writes to the Adjutant General of the Army for information about her son]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Delia Fry to Thomas from Baltimore, 21 Oct 1864 stating that she has heard that her son Jesse Fry of 4th USCT has been killed and he was her only source of support. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/21/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/64">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black war widow Liomia Potter writes to the Adjutant General of the Army for information about her husband]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Liomia Potter to L. Thomas, from Baltimore 11 Nov 1864 stating that she has not heard from her husband in months who is in 4th USCT. Adds that she and others &quot;are all poor women from the Eastern Shore of Md just out of slavery.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/11/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore and Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/63">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Joseph Hooker directs his subordinates to send Black men into rebel territory to search for their families and gather military intelligence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Capt. Joseph Dickinson (AAG) to Brig. Gen, Daniel E. Sickles ordering the sending out of all Black Marylanders who will be likely to gather information on the rebel forces on the south side of the Rappahanock. They have families on the other side of the river, and will be willing to encounter almost any peril to secure them. <br />
A letter of the same date permits Mr. Posey, a Maryland enslaver, to enter the camp of the 70th New York to reclaim two of his enslaved workers.<br />
A subsequent telegram in the folder describes Cornelius, an enslaved man, as reliable for supplying information about the rebel forces to the Union army.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/24/1862]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Camp Baker, Charles County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/62">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Edward A. Wild reports on an apparent scheme to defraud Black recruits of a portion of their pay by listing them as deserters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[General Edwd. A. Wild to Col. C.W. Foster (A.A.G.), In the Field, Chapin&#039;s Farm, VA identifying an evident scheme to defraud Black recuits of a portion of their pay by declaring them deserters despite having failed to notify them of their recruitment or afford them proper medical examination. Concludes &quot;these men were virtually impressed, or rather kidnapped. So they declare, themselves.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/12/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Maryland]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/61">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Amid widespread abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind formerly enslaved children, Governor Bradford complains about oversight efforts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James C. Mullikin (ADC) to H.H. Lockwood (3d sep brig) notifying him on abuses of apprenticeship system and suggesting the implementation of martial law in relevant counties on the Eastern Shore. Followed by A.W. Bradford (Gov of MD) to Gen. Lew Wallace (comdg Middle Dept) complaining of Wallace&#039;s General Order No. 112, which provided protections for formerly enslaved people from the apprenticeship system under which formerly enslaved children were widely bound to their former enslavers on the Eastern Shore. Under antebellum Maryland law, Bradford argued, &quot;provision is made for binding out the minor children of free persons of color who have not the means or are unwilling themselves to take care of their offspring.&quot; This practice of apprenticeship, Bradford claimed, grew from the &quot;necessity of taking care of an infant class thus suddenly deprived of the support to which they had been accustomed.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/9/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/60">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Report that free Black Marylanders were held in jail to compel them to enlist in the Army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt. M. Karney (cmdg post at Newton) to Lt. James C. Mullikin reporting on the conditions of the jail in Princess Ann, where several Black prisoners are held, apparently without charges. Some appear to have been enslaved and at least one discharged from the Army, flogged by the man who enlisted him. &quot;There are four others who are confined to get their consent to enter the army.&quot; ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/8/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Princess Ann, Somerset Co., MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/59">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne (AAPMG for MD &amp; DE) directing him to send the deputy pro mar at Salsbury &quot;to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips.&quot; If Phillips refused, he was to be arrested and sent to Baltimore.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Somerset County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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