5 10 44 https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/a454b2a8ab75510f1aa93aade476d0cf.pdf da1187e0a0b89ee72357dcb29125c4e4 https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/ffbd7c00c00312ca9e0f35cfaae0d053.pdf f72e5c8c7469a29d1545613b684b912f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Families in Civil War Maryland Description An account of the resource This collection documents the experiences of Black Maryland families during the Civil War. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Maryland Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document White Resident of Baltimore to the Commander of the Middle Department; and Baltimore Deputy Marshal to the Commander of the Middle Department [Baltimore, Md., November 29, 1864] To Genl Wallace Was taken from my dwelling No 100. Lee Street on the evening of November 2nd a molatto childe named Dolly Parran about Six years of age, Known to have bee taken by a Cold Girl by the name of Mary Tyler whose mother lives at No 4 Tyson Street. near Saratogo St. named Anna Ross her husband, Lewis Ross The child taken was an Orphan Child no relations with the exception of second cousins I raised the childs mother. and child from infancy. no doubt She is confined at No 4. Tyson St. or the inmates can be made to give the whereabouts. of their daughter Mary Tyler who stole the child awy. your kinde attention to the above will much relieve a, distressed mother and daughter: very Respectfully Balto Nov 29’ 1864. Sarah. Alnutt [Endorsement] Hd Qrs. Mid. Dept Nov. 29. 1864 Chief of Police— Will you please direct one of yr. policemen to ascertain, from the woman who took this child, what has become of it, and send me word. Lew Wallace Maj. Gen. Comd Police Department. Office of the Marshal, Baltimore, November 29 1864 Major Genl Wallace, In reference to the molatto child spoken of in Mrs Alnut, letter, I would say that, the parties living in Tyson St, deny the statement of Mrs Alnut, they will call at your Head Quarters to morrow, morning at, 10 Oclock, and give you a full explanation of the matter Yours &c John S. Manly Deputy Marshal Sarah. Alnutt to Genl Wallace , 29 Nov. 1864, filed with Deputy Marshal John S. Manly to Major Genl Wallace, 29 Nov. 1864, M-816 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4235]. In 1870, ten-year-old Dolly Parron was listed on the census living with Thomas and Christiana Allnut as a “Domestic Servant.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White Baltimore resident Sarah Alnutt petitions the military for help returning a Black child taken from her residence by family members Description An account of the resource White Baltimore resident Sarah Alnutt to Gen. Lew Wallace asking for help returning Black child Dolly Parran, who was apparently taken from her residence by distant relations. Includes a letter from the Baltimore police, who investigated the incident. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/29/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Baltimore, MD Apprentice children family police women https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/3151feee9e01cdd8375512d185b32c05.pdf 468f3ef9933a2a0f9f39b53ef4e67be6 https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/dade0340a5a48dc19e1f37a0771842b3.pdf 80ddbb858d6ab94f25271884a277b649 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Maryland and the Military Description An account of the resource This collection documents Black Marylanders' interactions with and contributions to the military during the Civil War. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The National Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-1865 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Open access Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Maryland Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document New York Army Officer to the Headquarters of a New York Regiment Fort McHenry, M.D. September 20th 1864 Sir I have the honor to Report to the Major Comdg 91st N.Y. Vols. the following viz, on the 17th inst I received 46 recruits from Depot and N.Y.S. one of them is a negro name George Tankard Enlisted in town Platsburg, N. York State by Capt. Glendon. I have assigned him for the present to the Kitchen, it will be next to impossible to quarter him with the company or to drill him with them, and yet by his enlistment he is entitled to all the rights and subject to all the duties with other enlisted men, and must be reported the same. I think under these circumstances it will be difficult to enforce Discipline in the company, I therefore most Respectfully Submit the case to Majr Comdg 91st Regt. hoping some steps may be taken to remedy the evil I am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obdt. Servt. Wm Lee, Capt 91st N.Y Vols comdg, E, Co To E. G. Shirly Lieut & Act, Adjt, 91st N.Y. Vols [Endorsement] Head Qrs. 91st NY v vols Fort McHenry Sept 20th /64 Respectfully forwarded to Hd Qrs, 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th AC, with the recommendations that the negro with in referred to, be transferred to a Colored Regiment or Company— Wm J. Donslow Major Comdg [Endorsement] H’d Qr’s 2d S.B. 8th A C Dept of Baltimore Ft McHenry Sep 22/64 Respectfully refer'd to Dep H'd Qrs 8th A.C, approving the recommendation of Majr Donslow comdg the 91st N.Y. Vet Vols [. . . .] [Endorsement] Head-Quarters, Middle-Department EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Baltimore, Md Sept 22d 1864. Respectfully forwarded to the Adjutant General U.S. Army And recommended. G Lew. Wallace Maj. Genl. Commanding [Endorsement] War Dept. A.G. Office, Sept. 26”, 1864. Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War, with the recommendation that Private George Tankard (colored) 91st New York Vols. be transferred to a colored regiment. C.W. Foster A.A. General Vols. E.B. Vol 1 Page 462. order sent. Approved By order of the Secretary of War Jas A. Hardie Col Ins Genl USA W. Dept Sept 27/64 Transfer him to [the?] 31st U.S. Col'd Inf. Capt Wm Lee to Lieut E. G. Shirly, 20 Sept. 1864, L-264 1864, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-104]. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White officers discuss how to handle a Black New York soldier who enlisted in a white unit stationed at Fort McHenry Description An account of the resource William Lee (capt NY vols) to Adj of NY Vols writing that he received a group of 46 men in which there was a Black man, George Tankard of NY. Lee states that he has put Tankard to work in the kitchen, and he feels that it would be unsafe to drill or house the Black soldier with the white ones. Asks that the man be moved immediately to USCT—request granted. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/20/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Fort McHenry, MD Black soldiers military discrimination https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/328d168c03082b6423e54dfbbf85a7e3.pdf fd3052a70ef037701b3e0c71fa049555 https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/de14b872f039fdadb1b21453b89288ec.pdf 66aaa9eca8d16a17e9a9a583d37ceaa9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Maryland and the Military Description An account of the resource This collection documents Black Marylanders' interactions with and contributions to the military during the Civil War. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The National Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-1865 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Open access Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Maryland Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Civilian Recruiting Agent to the Superintendent of Maryland Black Recruitment Centreville, Queen Anns County Md. August 24" 1863 Dear Sir: Since the arrest and imprisonment of Col. J. P. Creager, there is a strong opposition on the part of the citizens and civil authorities in this (Queen Anns) county against recruiting any more colored men. They assert and contend that, when a free colored man hires himself for a year, or a shorter period of time, he is a slave for the length of time he hires himself, and that I have no right to recruit him, though it may be his desire to volunteer. One recruit, John Singer, a free col,d man, in the employ of H. S. Mitchell, was arrested and taken from me at the Steamboat Landing at Queens Town, on a States writ, because, as the writ says, "he left his home and quit the service of H. S. Mitchell before the expiration of the time the hiring was to terminate, without reasonable and proper cause." Now this said John Singer left his home for the sole pupose of Volunteering and was on the way to Birney Barracks with me when he was arrested by order of one certain C. I. B. Mitchell. H. S. Mitchell and C. I. B. Mitchell are both notorious secessionests, and I am menaced with arrest by this class of persons, and have not the least doubt but that they will make the attempt if I am not sustained by proper military authority; and, unless some steps are taken by the Military to stop this strong opposition, it will be useless for me to try to obtain any more recruits. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Wm T. Chambers [Endorsement] Head Qrs. Recruiting for U.S. Colored Troops, Aug. 25, 1863. Respectfully forwarded for the information of the Secretary of War. The opposition to enlistment of Colored Troops is managed from Annapolis, is purely political and is designed to obstruct and hinder all recruiting of the kind. The arrest of Creager, a recruiting agent was the first step. Demands for return of slaves are the second. The third is the prevention by illegal writs of the enlistment of free blacks. I am advised by eminent counsel that the writ referred to within is illegal. If these efforts are not ended by speedy action of the War Dept, recruiting for colored troops must be abandoned in the state of Maryland. If I might suggest the remedy, it would be the support by the military authority, of my recruiting agents and the payment to loyal owners of a bounty for slaves enlisted. William Birney, Colonel Comg. 4th U.S.C.T. & Mustering & Recruiting Officer. Wm. J. Chambers to Col. Wm. Birney, 24 Aug. 1863, C-134 1863, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-616]. Chambers had written to the Secretary of War two days earlier, protesting the injustice of a recruitment policy that drafted and recruited free blacks, while prohibiting slave enlistment. He contended that in Queen Anne's County, the nonslaveholders, who were nearly all loyal unionists, suffered because their hired free black laborers were taken, while the slaveholders, who opposed the national government, benefited from retention of their bondsmen. Asking that the War Department "speedily order the recruiting of slaves," Chambers argued that "if you will allow the slaves to go, you strike a deeper blow against the rebellion than can be given in any other way." (William T. Chambers to Edwin M. Stanton, 22 Aug. 1863, C-125 1863, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-27].) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White officials in Queen Anne's County challenge the recruitment of free people of color as temporary slaves Description An account of the resource William T. Chamgbers to Col. William Birney reporting arrest of Col. J.P. Creager for recruiting among free people of color on the grounds that "when a free colored man hires himself for a year, or short period of time, he is a slave for the length of time he hires himself, and that I have no right to recruit him, though it may be his desire to volunteer." Notes that John Singer, a free person of color, was arrested for enlisting and thus violating his contract "without reasonable and proper cause." Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/22/1863 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Centreville, Queen Anne's Co, MD bureaucracy Free people of color incarceration local officials slavery white opposition to recruitment https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/3c7ea5698c81f9983bcb0967a9352e71.pdf 1d5772366c89625906a83a6e95e865fa https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/5bb5a59cf7e879040048efb79bb0b183.pdf 218103cac0a571cda3aaf672cd93748d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Parallel Politics Description An account of the resource This collection highlights Black political activity and organizing from outside formal institutional politics. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Maryland Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Freedmen and Southern Society Project Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Summary of a Letter from a Black Parishioner to the Headquarters of the Washington, D.C. Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner; Headquarters to a White Trustee of a Black Church; and the Assistant Superintendent of the Washington D.C. Freedmen’s Bureau to the Superintendent 3 / 12 [1867] 703, Lucket David — “Deposition” — States that they are prohibited from Holding services in their church at E.B. Vol. 1. No. 687. L.R. Vol. 1 No. 909. Oxen Hill, Md. Unless they have a white minister, — War Dept. Bureau R. F and A.L. Washington [D.C.] Feb. 24th 1866 Mr. Noyes Smith, Esq. Prince Geo. Md. Sir— Complaint has reached these Head Quarters that the colored people are prevented from worshiping in the church erected by them on their own land at Oxen Hill P. G. Co. by the society of which you are a trustee. You are therefore directed to appear at these Hd Quarters and state the reason for your action, in order that this Bureau may not be compelled to proceed further on an ex-parte statement— Respectfully &c By Order of Bvt. Brig Genl. C. H. Howard S. N. Clark Lt & A.A.A.G. Bureau R.F and A.L. Office Local Supt D.C. Washington. Mch 5” 1867, Beeb Jr. Lt col N M. Local Supt D.C. Colonel, I have the honor to State that the case referred to in communication dated Hd Qrs Ass’t Comr Bureau RF and A.L. Feby 28” 1867, (of which the enclosed are the original papers) was referred to me by Capt Wm Spurgin, Local Supt. D.C., on the 25” of Apr. 1866 for investigation and report My report was made to Capt Spurgin on the 8” of March 1866, and I supposed had been forwarded to the Ass’t Comr I have found the original papers. and I have the honor to submit. with them. my report. I visited Oxen Hill, Prince Geo. Co. Maryland. and from various Sources Elicited the following information, About the commencement of the year 1820, Revd Walter. D Addison set apart an acre of ground at Oxen Hill and by the aid of subscriptions from the neighboring Planters succeeded in erecting thereon a Church for the use of the Colored People in that neighborhood. That the said Church was occupied by them exclusively without molestation until the time of the “Nat Tyler,” Negro insurgency” in Maryland in the year 1852, when the legislature of Md made a Law, that the colored People should not be allowed to congregate on any occasion unless some white person should be present. From the Date of that Law. Noris Smith and others, (White) met with the colored People at the Church. Subsequently a white Clergyman was employed to preach when quite a number of White People came there to worship. Eventually the colored people were dispossed in a measure, The White portion of the congregation having made some improvements on the Church, and some additions to the Grounds, and in as much as colored Persons (under the existing laws of Maryland) could not hold real-Estate, and as no record of a deed for the original Acre of Ground, Can be found at the Clerks office of the County of Prince George, State of Maryland'. The White Trustees of the Church claim the property. They informed me that they were willing that the Colored People should attend the Church, but that a Colored Clergyman, should not ocupy the Pulpit. Very Respy Your obt Sevt J.W Vandenburgh Ass't Sup D.C. Summary of deposition of David Lucket, 21 Feb. 1866, vol. 1, p. 115, Registers of Letters Received, ser. 455, DC Asst. Comr., RG 105 [A-9940]; Lt. S.N. Clark to Noyes Smith Esq., 24 Feb. 1866, vol. 6, p. 244, Letters Sent, ser. 449, DC Asst. Comr., RG 105 [A-9940]; J. W. Vandenburgh to Lt. Col. N M. Beebe, 5 Mar. 1867, vol. 77, pp. 264-65, Letters Sent, ser. 542, DC and Georgetown Supt., RG 105 [A-9940]. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White trustees of a Black church refuse to allow them to employ a Black pastor Description An account of the resource Several documents beginning with deposition of David Lucket, complaining that white trustees of church at Oxon Hill, MD prevent Black parishioners from employing a Black minister. Require a white one. The underlying reason for this requirement by white trustees, subsequent investigation shows, is the "Nat Tyler" insurrection of 1852. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/21/1866 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Oxen Hill, Prince George's County, MD Black church church property Free people of color