https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/edb9b0873de62236538c3721af1d23d8.pdf f53bc51b43b79767d4d61c9c380a7dbe https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/c941cb554aa3d9bd7c15601b14b5f793.pdf d20bcf96b0688e79f9054c2b184d686c 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 Telegrams between President Lincoln and the Commander of the Middle Department Washington, D.C. Oct 21. 1863 Major General Schenck, A delegation is here saying that our armed colored troops are at many, if not all, the landing on the Patuxent river, and by their presence, with arms in their hands, are frightening quiet people, and producing great confusion. Have they been sent there by any order, and if so, for what reason? A. Lincoln Baltimore, Md. Oct. 21. 1863. A. Lincoln President of U.S.-- The delegation from St. Mary's County have grossly misrepresented matters. Col. Birney went, under my orders, to look for the site of a camp of instruction and rendezvous for colored troops. See his report this day forwarded to the Adjutant General-- He took with him, a recruiting squad, who were stationed, each with an officer at Mill Stone, Spencers, Saint Leonards, Dukes, Forest Grove & Benedict landings on the Patuxent. They are under special instructions, good discipline and have harmed no one-- The only disorder or violence has been that two secesionists, named Southeron have Killed Second Lieut. White at Benedict, but we hope to arrest the murderers-- The officer was a white man-- The only danger of confusion might be from the citizens, not the soldiers--but Col. Birney himself visited all the landings, talked with the citizens, and the only apprenhension they expressed was that their slaves might leave them. It is a neighborhood of rabid secessionists. I beg that the President will not intervene and thus embolden them-- R.C. Scheneck Washington, Oct. 22. 1863. Major General Schenck, Please come over here-- The fact of one of our officers being killed on the Patuxent, is a specimen of what I would avoid. It seems to me we could send white men to recruit better than to send negroes, and thus inaugerate homicides on punctillio. Please come over. A. Lincoln A. Lincoln to Major General Schenck, 21 Oct. 1863, Negro in the Military Service, p. 1687, ser. 390, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-461]; Maj. Genl. R. C. Schenck to A. Lincoln, 21 Oct. 1863, vol. 1, pp. 308-09, Telegrams Received by the President, RG 107 [L-165]; A. Lincoln to Major General Schenck, 22 Oct. 1863, Negro in the Military Service, p. 1692, ser. 390, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-461]. The pages in War Department Telegrams Sent, vol. 20, from which typescripts of the Lincoln telegrams were made for the Negro in the Military Service compilation, have subsequently been torn from the volume. 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 Lincoln expresses concern over the impact of Black military recruiters on white public opinion Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 21, 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 Eastern Shore, Maryland bureaucracy Lincoln military discrimination recruitment