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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Several surgeons of Black regiments write to Lincoln complaining about having to serve under a Black officer, Surgeon Alexander Augusta]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[J.B. McPherson et. al. to Lincoln protesting the assignment of Surgeon Alexander Augusta. Claim their commitment to &quot;bettering&quot; Black Americans but assert that it is beneath their dignity to serve with him as their superior officer. A subsequent letter from one of them, Asst. Surgeon Joel Morse of the 7th USCT, implores Senator John Sherman &quot;to right this wrong, which to my mind is grave, unjust, and humiliating.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Camp Stanton, Bryantown, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/29">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two escaped Black Marylanders reveal hidden rebel weapons cache to the army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt D. C. Clark to Capt Chas Corbit enclosing two affidavits from formerly enslaved Black Marylanders revealing the location of a hidden cache of rebel weapons as well as the details of their escape to join the Union Army.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/11/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel &amp; Calvert Counties, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/28">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Marylander reveals the location of hidden rebel arms on the property of a future Maryland state senator]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. H.H. Lockwood to Lt. Col. Lawrence (AAG) reporting that in the summer of 1861 he obtained information from a Black Marylander that Mr. [William B.] Stevenson had a quantity of guns stored in his barn. Mr. Stevenson is now the senator-elect from Harford Co, MD.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/21/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Havre de Grace, Harford County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/23">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maryland Governor Augustus Bradford complains to Lincoln about the liberation of enslaved prisoners from jail in Prince George&#039;s County]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.W. Bradford to Lincoln complains that a troop of colored soldiers committed an outrage in Prince Georges County by freeing prisoners from the county jail. Bradford asks Lincoln to have those guilty of this outraged punished and orders issued to prevent a recurrence. Ensclosed letter relates that Black troops under the command of Lt. Perkins released the prisoners from the county jail. BiIt concludes his letter by stating: ’’Your excellency will not fail to observe that the practical working of this affair is to invite the Negroes to the perpetration of any crime and to offer practical protection and indemnity to them.”]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/16/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Prince George&#039;s County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/21">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[White officials in Queen Anne&#039;s County challenge the recruitment of free people of color as temporary slaves]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 &quot;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.&quot; Notes that John Singer, a free person of color, was arrested for enlisting and thus violating his contract &quot;without reasonable and proper cause.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[8/22/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Centreville, Queen Anne&#039;s Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/19">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/1">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lincoln expresses concern over the impact of Black military recruiters on white public opinion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[October 21, 1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, Maryland]]></dcterms:coverage>
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