1 10 13 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/340624ce2bb9024d75b1d66985013e18.pdf be95487d416adc67d9b721816d9aee79 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/977ec97da425f0b76eeaf5fe21bc1e78.pdf 9e430b4f47c05bd417da39bff73b965c 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 Maryland White Unionist to the Commander of the Middle Department and 8th Army Corps Head Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps, Baltimore [Md.], Nov 15" 1864 Dear Sir I have the honor to forward you a statement of facts, as to the binding of Negro Children in Dorchester County. I have seen them Carried from different portions of the County in ox Carts, waggons, and Carriags to the County town (Cambridge) to be Carried before the Court to be bound out as apprentices. in some Cases boys were bound out that would Command wages at sixty dollars per year Very Respectfully Your Obediant Servant John E. Graham John E. Graham to Major Genl Lew Wallace, 15 Nov. 1864, filed with M-1932 1864, Letters Received, ser. 12, RG 94 [K-4]. Graham, whose term of service in an eastern shore Maryland regiment had just expired, had reported to the commander of the Middle Department at the request of General Henry H. Lockwood, commander of the 3rd Separate Brigade, who wished to keep the department commander fully informed of “the deplorable condition of affairs in the lower counties of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.” Lockwood proposed that Graham, who had earlier served as provost marshal in Accomac County, Virginia, be retained in the military service and appointed assistant provost marshal in the southern counties of Maryland's eastern shore, supported by "a dozen mounted men." (Official Records, ser. 1, vol. 43, pt. 2, p. 632.) 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 A White Unionist testifies on the abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind large numbers of Black children Description An account of the resource John Graham to Majr Genl Lew Wallace on the scale of the apprenticeship crisis: Black children in Worchester County are "carried from different portions of the County in ox Carts, waggons, and carriages to the County town (Cambridge) to be carried before the Court to be bound out as apprentices." File includes a massive number of enclosures, mostly dealing with apprenticeship and illegal enslavement after Maryland passed an emancipation measure in its Constitution of 1864. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/15/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worchester County, MD https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/a8fa9fedadf87221b6cb84d8fad346b5.pdf b1deb596f99462ed698d9fd2adc8d9a2 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/298abea5e2109a692edc2eb634d9e870.pdf 520fd2a0539754b2010f5f689fdcbef1 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 Aide-de-camp to the Commander of the Third Separate Brigade; and the Governor of Maryland to the Commander of the Middle Department Easton, Talbot Co. Md. Nov. 9th 1864 Brig. Genl. H. H. Lockwood Comdg 3rd Sep. Brig. 8th A.C. General: I beg leave to call your attention to certain practices in the counties through which I have passed, viz: Somerset, Worcester, Dorchester & Talbot, which are alike in conflict with natural justice and civil law. The laws of this state provide that all children, whose parents are by the Orphans Court unable to support them, may be bound out by the orphans’ Court until of age but in all such cases the parent or parents may select the party to whom the child is to be bound. Now in the counties above named colored children have been taken from parents who were perfectly able to support them; others sixteen, seventeen and even eighteen years of age who might easily maintain themselves and also assist in the support of their mothers and younger brothers and sisters are also taken and bound out and without any regard being paid to the wishes of the parent in the selection of the person to whom they were bound. In other cases parents have appeared before the Orphans’ Court and requested that their children might be bound to other parties than those named by the court and their requests have been entirely disregarded. It is needless to mention that in a large majority of cases these children are bound to southern sympathisers. I think, General, some steps should be taken to regulate this matter. I see no remedy except the partial execution, at least, of the order issued by Maj. Genl. Wallace, last spring, declaring martial law in certain Eastern Shore Counties. I did not deem it necessary to take affidavits in this matter, as I presume there can be no doubt as to the correctness of my information. I am, General Yours Very Respectfully James C. Mullikin Lieut. & A.D.C. State of Maryland EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Annapolis Nov. 10th 1864 Major Genl. Lew. Wallace Comdg. Middle Department General: I have just read your General Order No 112 published in this morning’s papers in reference to protection to be furnished by the Military Authorities to Slaves recently emancipated under the provisions of the new Constitution of the State just adopted— The general scope and object of your order as I understand it, is, I think, if the order itself is discretely executed, calculated to be of much service in assisting a class generally very ignorant, now for the first time thrown upon their own resources— I fear however that without some explanation, it may mislead some of the Civil Officers of the State in connection with their duties as prescribed in our legislative Code— I do not refer to any thing connected with the Slave Code of the State; that of course is entirely abrogated in effect by the adoption of the new Constitution, — but there are other provisions in our Code having exclusive reference to the free Colored population of the State, now, more than ever requiring strict observance from the large and sudden increase made to that class of our population— I cannot suppose that you design any interference with that portion of our Statute laws, as your order itself seems only to look to the interposition of a Military Authority or protection until the Legislature of the State may make such protection unnecessary— Under these circumstances I have deemed it proper to call to your attention the 6th Article of our Code of Public General Laws relating to apprentices, whereby 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. The law provides all proper precautions for notifying such parents of the proceedings, summoning them before our Orphans Courts and consulting the wishes of both parent and child on the subject, and you will find it laid down in the Article mentioned sec. 31 et seq. I have the less hesitation in relying upon it as embracing very salutary and necessary provisions particularly required by the new state of things introduced by the present Constitution, from the fact that I know the Convention which adopted that Constitution had themselves at one time during their session introduced similar provisions to meet the obvious necessity of taking care of an infant class thus suddenly deprived of the support to which they had been accustomed, and only ultimately struck out that provision on the ground that this very enactment to which I have referred, met the requirements of the case. Without the exercise of some such power by the proper County Authorities, there would be great danger, especially during the inclement season now approaching, of large numbers of that infant population, thus suddenly thrown adrift in every County of the State suffering very severely, and who could not reach even the protection which your order seems intended to provide in the City of Baltimore. What I would therefore respectfully suggest in connection with the subject of your order, is that the Orphans Courts may be given to understand that you have no purpose of interfering with their execution of existing laws on the subject of free negroes, or at least no farther than to require that no abuse of the authority thereby vested in them shall be practiced, and that the terms and limitations of the law be strictly observed Very Respectfully Your obdt. Servt. A W Bradford Lieut. James C. Mullikin to Brig. Genl. H. H. Lockwood, 9 Nov. 1864, M-762 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4237]; A W Bradford to Major Genl. Lew. Wallace, 10 Nov. 1864, M-765 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4238]. General Orders No. 112 named abuses of the apprenticeship system on the Eastern Shore. It charged that “evil disposed parties in certain counties of the State of Maryland… intend obstructing the operation, and nullifying, as far as they can, the emancipation provision of the New Constitution: and that for this purpose they are availing themselves of certain laws, portions of the ancient slave code of Maryland, as yet unrepealed, to initiate as respects the persons heretofore slaves, a system of forced apprenticeship.” The order thus stipulated that “all persons within the limits of the Middle Department heretofore slaves, but now free, by operation of the New Constitution, shall be considered under special military protection, until the Legislature of Maryland may, by its enactments, make such military protection unnecessary.” It created a “Freedmen’s Bureau for said Department” headquartered in Baltimore to investigate the claims of Black Marylanders and make arrests when appropriate. To accomplish this end, it required provost marshals, “particularly those on the Eastern and Western Shores” where these abuses were most prevalent, to hear complaints and assist the head of the newly-created Freedmen’s Bureau, Major William M. Este, in supporting the rights of Black Marylanders. Finally, the order created a “Freedmen’s Rest” to temporarily care for “the sick, helpless, and needy,” which would be funded by donations, fines, and if necessary, levies on the property of Confederate sympathizers. (General Orders. No. 112, Head-Quarters Middle Department, Eighth Army Corps, 9 Nov. 1864, vol. 61 8AC, General Orders (Printed), ser. 2352, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4170], published in Freedom, ser. 1, vol. 2, pp. 513-515.) Sections ten through thirty of Article Six of the 1860 Maryland Code provided regulations for white children and sections thirty-one through forty covered the apprenticing of “the child of any free negro.” Free-born Black children were subject to harsher penalties once apprenticed and could be bound more easily than their white neighbors. Where white children could only be bound after becoming orphans or in cases “extreme indigence,” section thirty-one stated merely that “the child of any free negro” may be bound “if it shall appear upon examination before [an Orphans’ Court] that it would be better for the habits and comfort of such child that it should be bound as an apprentice to some white person to learn to labor.” Although article fifteen required that white apprentices receive a “reasonable education in reading, writing and arithmetic,” article thirty-six stipulated that “it shall not be necessary… in any indenture of a negro made by the trustees of the poor, to require that any education shall be given to such negro apprentice.” Article forty, moreover, mandated that “if any negro apprentice abscond or run away,” they would not only be held liable to the apprentice holder for any loss of income, but also “the said court shall have full power to authorize the master of such absconding apprentice to sell such apprentice, and for the whole period he may have to serve, to any person within the State.” No portion of Article Six permitted white children to be sold. (The Maryland Code, vol. 1 [Baltimore, 1860], pp. 31-39.) 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 Amid widespread abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind formerly enslaved children, Governor Bradford complains about oversight efforts Description An account of the resource 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'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, "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." This practice of apprenticeship, Bradford claimed, grew from the "necessity of taking care of an infant class thus suddenly deprived of the support to which they had been accustomed." Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/9/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Eastern Shore, MD Apprentice children https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/24a2ffddf66c19d84586ef760a42cc57.pdf a794e9682ba9502f2ad6419bdaf42e0f https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/12821688cd47584bc456e428583fc916.pdf b464889996276269c4c6fb7abbf0bd33 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 Maryland Black Drummer Boy to the Secretary of War Alexandria V.a. Feb 21st 1865 Sir I have the honor of writing you a few Lines To inform you that i want to apply for a furlough for i enlisted in December the 18th 1863 as a Drummer boy and now i am about 14 months from home and my mother has wrote for me several times for me to come home I have ask for a furlough 3 different times now and they have put me off by saying that i was nothing but a boy and did not need one so i thought i would write to a higher authority and see what they would do for me I has respects for my folks at the Age of 14 as well as those of the age of 20 years i will now be 14 years of age the 25th of December 1865 i think that i have a right to my furlough at the end of 12 months any how a native of M.D bred and born in St marys County Very respectfully Yours Reason Brown I belong to the 19th MD Co. D. U S Cold Vol Reason Brown to the secatry of war, 21 Feb. 1865, B-126 1865, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-119]. 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 drummer boy Reason Brown petitions for furlough to visit his family in Maryland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/21/1865 Description An account of the resource Reason Brown to the Sec. of War Brown is a 14 yr old drummer boy. He has been in the army for 14 months, has applied 3 times for a furlough and cannot get one. He wants to visit family in MD-officers tell him he is too young to want to visit his family. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Alexandria, VA; St. Mary's County, MD Black soldiers bureaucracy children family military discrimination women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/4b41bb3bce24d1a57bd293287112a45f.pdf 52373951fb6ffedeb44c73a2107ef06f https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/6b12ccfa9de5e04109b210b31d81597d.pdf 1db48ed80ad222027220d61f5ace3ec1 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 Order by the Provost Marshal at Annapolis, Maryland, and the Provost Marshal to Two White Marylanders Annapolis, Md. Dec. 29” 18[64] Sir A colored woman by the name of Matilda Johnson makes complaint that you have her household goods” in your possession and this is to notify you that you must deliver to her forthwith all goods chattels and household utensils of every description that rightfully belong to her or subject yourself to Military arrest for disobedience of Genl. Order 112 Hd. Qrs. Middle Dept. Genl. Wallace Comdg. Geo. W. Curry Capt. 4” Del. Vols. Provost Marshal Annapolis, Md. Jan. 30" 1865 To whom it may Concern Matilda Johnson colored having claimed Military protection for herself and child a boy named Henry W. Johnson formerly living with Mr James Boyle herself nor boy will not be molested by any one without a written order from this office Geo. W. Curry Capt. 4” Del. Vols. Provost Marshal Annapolis Md. Feb. 9" 1865 Gentlemen I am receipt of your Communications of the 5th Inst and after a careful perusal of their contents beg leave to say that I have given an order to Matilda Johnson the mother of the boy mentioned of which the following is a true copy And I would further state that in view of the representations made by you and others I have no objections to your again getting possesion of the boy You can see by the reading of the order that the case was left open for an appeal by you if you thought proper to do so but I have never been approached on the subject directly except day before yesterday by a colored girl who said that she lived with you and gave me a pretty clear understanding in the case and I told her that when I saw or received a proper communication from either of you I would attend to the matter as I did not deem her a proper channel of communication and I do think that in my official capacity as Provost Marshal that I have tried to act with courtesy and give proper attention to all be they in what circumstances of life they may and I do not think that my worst enemies can charge me with ignoring even the most common civilities in my official capacity In regard to the violation of an organic law of your State I have only to say that the law is well enough in its self but it has been shamefully abused my many citizens of this state who call themselves Gentlemen and they have taken advantage of the ignorance of the freedmen and women and indentured under the plea of their not being able to support them their children when in many cases the children were large and old enough to in a great measure support their parents and it was this state of things that caused the issue of Genl. order No. 112. by Genl. Lew Wallace comdg Middle Dept 4 You will find enclosed an order for Matilda Johnson to give the child into your charge which trusting will be satisfactory I. Remain Gentlemen Your. Obt Servant Geo. W. Curry. Provost Marshal Capt. Geo. W. Curry to James Boyle, 29 Dec. 1864, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]; Capt. Geo. W. Curry, 30 Jan. 1865, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]; Geo. W. Curry. to Mess. J. & L. Boyle, 9 Feb. 1866, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]. 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 Formerly enslaved Matilda Johnson petitions the Freedmen's Bureau for the return of her children and household goods, after which the agency waived her right to her children Description An account of the resource 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's Bureau had intervened to have her children returned, Boyle was successful in getting permission to retrieve them under previous apprenticeship proceedings. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/29/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Anne Arundel Co, MD Apprentice bureaucracy children property ownership women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/dd6fb4f6ca2d9ec4db92252f8d3169f1.pdf b18aefaba73bc5ddd2177ebf188d09f1 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/441576af881ee1985faf1f130dd230c6.pdf a860c1a31bee1c6cab8925bad69ed432 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 Statement of a Maryland Free Black Woman Head Qrs. M. Dept 8” a/c Balto [Md.] Novr 14"/64. Statement of Barbara Diggs (fw) I am a free woman, but my children are slaves of Dr. Featherbridge of Talbot. Co Md. I make this Statement desiring information as to whether my children can be held by the said Dr. Featherbridge he claiming the right of binding them to him. I wish to get possession of them immediately if possible as it was averse to my will to have them bound to the said Dr. Featherbridge her Barbara X Diggs fw mark Statement of Barbara Diggs, 14 Nov. 1864, filed with M-1932 1864, Letters Received, ser. 12, RG 94 [K-4]. 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 Free Black Woman Barbara Diggs petitions for the release of her children, who were bound out against her will Description An account of the resource Statement of Barbara Diggs, a free woman of color, whose children "are slaves of Dr. Featherbridge of Talbot Co Md" he "claiming the right of binding them to him." File includes a massive number of enclosures, mostly dealing with apprenticeship and illegal enslavement after Maryland passed an emancipation measure in its Constitution of 1864. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/14/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Talbot County, MD Apprentice children women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/ce045df9b8670bb2b194b5de5ecba4cd.pdf 776e20621432949c12f012275342f162 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/73f3f21b73c7ec503e96e0ab0ee4a656.pdf edc60adc48f4e1abac7503c8312d5723 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 Headquarters of the Middle Department to the Commander of the Third Separate Brigade; Headquarters to the Commander; and the Commander to the Commander of the Middle Department Head Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps, Baltimore, December 2d 1864 General, x (extract) x x x He will give special attention to Par. 1. of S.O. No 112, Current Series these Hd. Qrs, and break up the practice now prevalent of apprenticing young negroes, without the consent of their parents, to their former masters. If necessary, he will not hesitate to arrest all masters who refuse liberty to such apprentices, or withold them from their parents, and keep them in custody until they consent to such liberation— In case the parents of apprentices are not able to support them, and they desire it, he will send them to Baltimore, to the care of Lt. Col. W. E. W. Ross 31st U.S.C.T., in charge of Freedman’s Bureau. He will endeavor to keep families together as far as possible: but at the same time use his influence to discourage emigration for the present, and only send to Baltimore those who cannot find homes, occupation and labor where they now are— x x x x (over) I am General Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant (S) Saml: B. Lawrence A.A.G. To Brig: Genl: H H Lockwood Com’dg 3d Sep. Brigade A true copy: Saml B Lawrence Asst: Adjt: Genl: [Endorsement] Head Quarters Middle Dep’t 8th Army Corps, Baltimore Md. Dec. 8/1864 Extract of letter from these Head Quarters to Brig. Genl. Lockwood—Dec 2nd 1864, respectfully furnished—to —Brig. Genl Lockwood who is hereby directo not to proceed under the instructions herein contained until further orders. By Command of Major Genl. Wallace Saml B Lawrence A.A. Genl. [More?] [Baltimore] Dec. 9th 1864 Brig. Gen. Lockwood Salisbury Md. That part of your instructions relating to negroes has been countermand. I will send the papers to Cambridge tomorrow. James C. Mullikin Lt. & A.A.A.G. 10 Salisbury Md Dec 11 [1864] Maj Gen. Wallace Just arrived here from below find a telegram from Lt. [Mulliken] saying that orders have gone to me. Cambridge Countermanding my instructions so far as relates to the negroes. Presuming that this refers to the subject of the recent apprenticeship in these Counties I beg leave to submit a few remarks it is impossible to convey to you by telegraph any idea of the hundreds of abuses that have come to my knowledge of this system I have knowledge of cases where lads of sixteen 16 & Eighteen 18 have been bound out & than hired to their fathers who are prosperous farmers for ten 10 and twelve 12 dollars a month both you and I are put in false position here by stopping short now, I dont think that any one can visit these Counties as I have done without seeing the importance of stopping this wholesale perversion of what designed to be a humane law I will leave for Cambridge tomorrow & desire to hear from you by telegraph tonight Genl Lockwood 170 Col. 715 Saml: B. Lawrence to Brig: Genl: H H Lockwood, 2 Dec. 1864, M-841 1864, Letters Received, ser. 4921, 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 2 No. 319 [C-4118]; Lt. James C. Mullikin to Brig. Gen. Lockwood, 9 Dec. 1864, vol 69 8AC, p. 102, Press Copies of Telegrams Sent, ser. 2334, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4118]; Genl Lockwood to Maj Gen. Wallace, 11 Dec. [1864], vol. 65/89 8 AC, pp. 62-64, Press Copies of Telegrams Received, ser. 2345, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-8922]. According to a letter from General Lockwood’s adjutant, William M. Boone, to Black minister John Dennis, the order from General Wallace that empowered him to break up the apprenticeship system had been countermanded by the Secretary of War. (Wm. M. Boone to Jno. Dennis, 26 June 1865, vol. 94/178 8AC, p. 414, Lettters Sent, ser. 4916, 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 2 No. 319 [C-8895].) A published series of communications on apprenticeship related to this case may be found in Freedom, ser. 1, vol. 2, pp. 522-528. 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 General Henry H. Lockwood attempts to break up the abusive apprenticeship system on the Eastern Shore, but is countermanded by headquarters Description An account of the resource Extract from Samuel B. Lawrence (AAG 8th AC) to Henry H. Lockwood (Comdg. 3rd sep brig) from Special Order No. 112 breaking up the widely abused apprentice system that bound formerly enslaved children to their former enslavers against the wishes of their parents. Includes copy of a telegram suspending that order, which left the apprenticeship system in place, as well as Lockwood's reply in protest of the decision. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/2/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Eastern Shore, MD Apprentice https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/a842cf0f8a6844e47908fa6b1027e27b.pdf 533f2a48475f6f261ce7ca4a28686a12 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/0b27853b98d7984f1ba4836b2dd2bff1.pdf d1cb30a9e6cc5e204a1931abcc8c94c6 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 Clerk in the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau to a Bounty Claimant; and Her Reply [Baltimore, Md.] July 8” [186]7 Mrs James Emory Long M[ars]h [Queen] Ann Co Maryland Madam I am directed by Maj Gen Gregory to notify you that proof of marriage or [certification?] is required in your claim for your husbands Bounty. Your husbands father claims that you [were] nev[er] lawfully m[arri]ed to his son and he has instituted a claim for his Bounty. You had better call at this Office and bring this letter with you. Very respectfully C. W. Hildreth Clerk Long Marsh P.O. Queen Ann's Co. Md. [July? 1867] Mr. C. W. Hildreth. I got your letter yesterday & hasten to reply. I have had so much trouble & gone so in debt to get my poor husband's bounty, that I was able to do no more, unless there was something accomplished by all my trouble, which there dint seem to be as there seems some hope of getting it, from your letter, I will try again. I can prove by the best authority, that I was lawfully married to James Emory. I was married to him by a Methodist preacher, colored, & my husband paid him for marrying us, he was a regular preacher in the conference, & it was the way all the people were married. If his Father says we were not lawfully married, he tells a story, because he wants to get the Bounty himself. & I am the right one to have it, I am his widow & a poor woman, & have one child, a boy, living, four years old, who should have some of the money of his Father, to raise & educate him. I have no money nor cant get any to go to Baltimore, but I will send a certificate of my marriage, with the preacher's name to it, sworn to before the county magistrate I would think this proof enough. I will send it in the next mail to you please show this to Gen Gregory & ask him if he can help me & I will be grateful all my life. Yours Respectfully Henrietta Emory. C. W. Hildreth to Mrs James Emory, 8 July 1867, vol. 7, p. 4, Press Copies of Letters Sent, series 1995, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives; Henrietta Emory to Mr. C. W. Hildreth, [July? 1867], filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. According to an unsigned endorsement in the bounty file dated April 1868, Henrietta Emory had previously filed a claim for her husband’s bounty in 1866.   Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims to a Bounty Claimant; and Two Replies from the Claimant HEAD QUARTERS, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, DISTRICT OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. No. 12 North Calvert Street. Claim & Complaint Division. Baltimore [Md.], January 14 1868 Mrs. Emory You are requested to state at your earliest convenience, what you have done or propose doing with papers sent you to execute in your claim for your husband's Bounty, when you answer, return this letter with your letter A W Bolenius Agent In charge of Claim & Complaint Division. (& see her papers) Beaver Dams [Md.]. Feb 4th 1868 Kind Sir I received your letter of Dec wanting to know whot I intend doing I must here state I do not know whot to do more than I have done for I have nothing to do with I am a poor woman and I can not get any thing done with out paying for it and I am not able to stand to it I want you to do all you can for me for I have no money to do any thing with Your. Obedient Servant Henrietta Emory Long Marsh Md Feby 12th /68 Sir Your letter was recived and in reply I will say that it is imposible for me to come to your Office. I am not able to come I certainly have not money to spare to pay my expenses to Baltimore and back I have gott one child and myself to maintain and it is imposible for me to come please do what you can for me and let me know how you will do please let me hear from you soon and Oblidge your Obedient Servant Hennie Emory Long Marsh Md A. W. Bolenius to Mrs. Emory, 14 Jan. 1868; Henrietta Emory to Kind Sir [Adolphus W. Bolenius], 4 Feb. 1868; Hennie Emory to Sir, 12 Feb. 1868, all filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. The letter to which Emory replied on February 12 has not been found in the volumes of press copies of letters sent of the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau.   Headquarters of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner to a Bounty Claimant; and a Reply by the Claimant, Enclosing the Affidavit of a Black Clergyman No. 12 N. Calvert St. [Baltimore, Md.] Feby. 27 [186]8 Madam:- Please inform me whether you will be able to furnish the marriage certificate, properly sworn to by the officiating clergyman, as promised in your letter of recent date & oblige Very respectfully Edwd C. Knower Bt. Capt. U.S.A. A.A.A. Genl. Return reply in enclosed envelope Henrietta Emory Long Marsh P.O. Queen Ann Co. Md Long Marsh P.O. [Md.] [February? 1868] Edward C Knower— Dear Sir, I send the certificate of my marriage as you requested me. Col Cragrier the one who used to supertend the buisness has all my pappers. I have tried to get my money so long, I am poor & have not the money to pay for gitting any more certificates & things, I have gone to a great deal of expense about it, I sent them all once to Col Cragrier who promised to send me the money. I will be a thousand times obliged to you if you send me my money. I am much in debt about this buisness, I had to pay $2, for what little I had done for me this morning, & the money which is due my poor dead husband ought to be mine, He killed himself in the army! You could send me the money in a letter. Yours Respectfully Henrietta Emory Long Marsh P.O. Queen Ann’s Co Maryland [Queen Anne County, Md., February? 1868] State of Maryland Queen Annes County to wit I hereby make oath that I married Jas Emery & Henrietta Price on the 25 day of December 1860 according to the usages of the state of Maryland his John X Smith mark attest R H Gibson Sworn before W. D. Smith J.P. Bt. Capt. Edwd C. Knower to Henrietta Emory, 27 Feb. 1868, vol. 7, p. 435, Press Copies of Letters Sent, series 1995, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives; Henrietta Emory to Edward C Knower, [Feb.? 1868]; Affidavit of John Smith, [Feb.? 1868], both filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.   Headquarters of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner to a Bounty Claimant; and Her Reply Head Quarters, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, District of Maryland and Delaware, No. 12 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md., May 4 1868 Madam:- In your claim for pay on account of your late husband James Emery Co. "D." 39 U,S,C,T, the enclosed affidavit must be duly executed as indicated therein in pencil, If the Justice of the Peace who charged you two dollars for the affidavit previously sent, which was irregular in form, & of no value still refuses to execute the enclosed free of charge, (it being designed to supply the place of the one which you have already paid for,) please report the same to this office with the name & residence of the Justice, Follow the directions in pencil & return the affidavit with this letter to this office, Respectfully Edwd C Knower Bvt. Capt. & A.A.A. Genl. Henrietta Emery Long Marsh. Queen Ann. Co. Md. Long Marsh. PO. [Md.] August 26 [1868]. Edward C. Knower— Sir, I received your notice & reply immediately I have written repeatedly to the office in regard to my bounty money, & have gone in debt going to Baltimore, & writing for it, & have never got one cent, I am poor & not able to do any more unless I was sure of getting something, I send you all the papers I have about it & will be so thankful if you will collect it for me, for I am very needy, & can just make out to live, I will wait anxiously to hear from you, for I am very much in need of money, I have gone to so much expense trying to get it, & have no more to pay. I have sent papers to Baltimore twice proving that I was legally married to my husband, & I could do no more. Very Respectfully Henrietta Emory. Bvt. Capt. Edwd C Knower to Henrietta Emery, 4 May 1868; Henrietta Emory to Edward C. Knower, 26 Aug. [1868], both filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.   Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims to a Bounty Claimant HEAD QUARTERS, SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, NORMAL SCHOOL BUILDING, Cor. SARATOGA and COURTLAND Streets, Baltimore, Md. Sept. 18th. 1868 Henrietta Emory. Long Marsh Md. Take the enclosed letter to Justice Smith— I think he will assist you, Also have John Smith, the preacher who married you, and two witnesses, colored, or white, men of women provided they are not interested— go with you to Justice Smith, The witnesses must be acquainted with you, and your husband, know that you lived together as man and wife for several years As soon as the affidavit (which is in the letter for Justice Smith) is executed return it to this office, Unless you attend to this matter, you will NEVER get your claim settled, E. C. Knower, Bt Capt. U.S.A. Box 599 P,O, Baltimore Md I H Bayne Agent [Endorsement] [Long Marsh? Md.] Mr Smith Sir Please to fix this womans papers for Her & turn them to Mr Geo Johnson for me and oblige I E H Bayne from Bureau Boltomore. Bt Capt. E. C. Knower to Henrietta Emory, 18 Sept. 1868, filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. Bayne’s endorsement to Justice Smith is written on the reverse of the letter of September 18, 1868 from Captain Knower to Emory that is printed above.   Bounty Claimant to the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims, Enclosing the Statement of a Maryland Physician Long Marsh P.O. [Md.] April 13. 1870. Capt Knower— I received the letter, with the one for Justice Smith, which I gave him. I have sent you all the certificates you have asked of me, & have done all I could to get my money. I sent you the certificate of my marriage. I was Jim Emory’s lawful wife, & have proved it to you, & me & his son Moses, are the lawful ones to have it. I have gone to much expense to get it, & am not able to do more for I am a poor woman. I send you in this the certificate of the Dr, who attended him in his last illness. I am very needy, & can do no more, am not able to pay for all the expense I have already gone to. Hoping to hear something from it. Respectfully Heneritta Emory. Long Marsh P.O. Queen Ann’s Co. Md [Enclosure] [Long Marsh, Md.] Apr. 13/70 I certify that I attended, as Physician, Jas. Emory U.S.C.T., in his last sickness, in the year 1864, after he left the Army. Also that his disease was, Chronic Diarrhea L.H. Beatty Heneritta Emory to Capt Knower, 13 Apr. 1870, enclosing statement of L. H. Beatty, 13 Apr. 1870, filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.   Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner [Baltimore, Md.] May 9th [1870] Bv’t. Major Gen’l. O. O. Howard. Comr Bureau R.F. & A.L. Washington, D.C. General. I have the honor to request information as to what evidence is on file, and what evidence necessary to complete the claim for Pension of Henrietta Emory as widow of James Emory; deceased Pvt. D. 39th US.C.T. Claim filed by J. P. Creagher in 1866. Please return this letter with statement. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. Edwd C Knower Bv’t. Captain U.S. Army. In charge of claims. Bv’t. Captain Edwd C Knower to Bv’t. Major Gen’l. O. O. Howard, 9 May [1870], vol. 11, p. 202, Press Copies of Letters Sent, series 1995, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. No reply has been found in the commissioner’s letters-sent volumes.   Maryland Merchant to the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims Beaver Dams [Md.] May 4th 1871 Mr Edwd C Knower Dear Sir Hennie Emory, the wife of James Emory, came to see me a fiew days since stating to me that she had recieved several letters from you that if she would get some one that knew her, and also knew her to bee the wife of said Emory, that you would pay her the amt due. if there is any you can send the papers that is nessesary to bee filled up and it will be attended to. wright and lett me know yours Respectfully J. L. Turner P.O. Long Marsh Queen anns co M, D, J. L. Turner to Mr Edwd C Knower, 4 May 1871, filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files of Pension Claims, series 2002, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.   Statement of a Maryland Physician Long Marsh P.O. Queen Ann's Co. Md. May 5. 1871. By request of Hennie Emory I certify that I was the physician of James Emory, her husband, after his return from the army & that I have no knowledge of his ever being scalded by his wife, as I understand has been represented. L. H. Beatty Statement of L. H. Beatty, 5 May 1871, filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files for Claims for Bounty & Pay Arrearages, series 2000, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.   Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims to a Maryland Merchant; Maryland Bounty Claimant to the Agent; and the Merchant to the Agent [Baltimore, Md.] May 8th [18]71 J. L. Turner Esqr Long Marsh P.O. Md. Sir. Your letter of May 4th Received. There is certain evidence (not difficult to furnish) required to complete the claims of Henrietta Emory as widow of James Emory "D" 39th but it is useless to attempt the completion of her claims unless she can disprove certain facts sworn to by the father, of soldier, who has also made a claim. The Statements made and proved by the father are as follows viz: that, "Henrietta lived with other men while James Emory was in the Army, that she so continued to live until the year 1867 when she married one John Meade, that she was so living when James Emory came home sick on a furlough and she positively refused to receive said soldier, and care for h[im], but forced him to leave her and go to [hi]s father’s house & during four week[s] [sickness?] Henrietta paid no attention [to] James & did not see him until his burial” Before anything further can be done in regard to Henrietta's Claims she must furnish the testimony of two or more reliable white persons who can prove the falsity of the fathers statement If she has any such witnesses she need to simply send me THEIR names and state which of the above statements they will swear from their personal knowledge to be false If any of the assertions are true, and Henrietta can give a good reason for her conduct I would like to have her statement, Remember!! do not attempt to have any papers sworn to, but simply send the names and facts and I will prepare a proper affidavit, AFTER we have straightened out the above matter we can then go ahead and complete her claims, Prompt action is necessary as this office will soon close and the claim will be given to father as Henrietta has had ample time to complete claims Let me hear from you Edwd C Knower 1st Lieut. U.S.A. Beaver Dams [Md.] May 16 1871 Mr Edward C Knower Dear Sir Yours of the 8 inst came to hand on the fifteenth I was not aware that the Father of James had made any application to the office for the money. I have always thought that Samuel Emery aught to have the money, Henrietta Meeds was in my Store this morning to seel me about the matter, and I took her to herself and Questioned her, and she could not offer any evidence against the statements that Samuel Emery had already made, I am willing to testafy to the statements as set fourth in your letter to me, also Dr G. N. Parvis will do the same Hennie lived with me also James Emery her husband at the time he went in the army, and I know all about the facts in the case, and I feel willing to do any thing that is wright for Sam, please lett me here what is to bee done and it will be attended to at once Dr G. N. Parvis lives in the same town and a letter directed to the same P.O. will reach him Please wright soon yours &c— J L Turner [Long Marsh, Md.] May 17th 1871 Dear Sir I have heard the letter red that you sent to me but it give me very pore incurgement but I will try to come over on monday the 21 if I can Mrs Henryetta Emory Mr E. C Knower 1st Lieut. Edwd C Knower to J. L. Turner Esqr, 8 May [18]71, vol. 11, pp. 471-72, Press Copies of Letters Sent, series 1995, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives; J L Turner to Mr Edward C Knower, 16 May 1871, Unregistered Letters Received, series 1997, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives; Mrs Henryetta Emory to Mr E. C Knower, 17 May 1871, filed with Emory, James, Case Files of Pension Claims, series 2002, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. No reply to Turner’s letter has been found in the volumes of press copies of letters sent of the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau.   Representative of a Maryland Bounty Claimant to the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau Agent in Charge of Claims; and the Claims Agent to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner Ridgely [Md.] Nov 16th 1871 E C Knower Esq Baltimore Dear Sir I recd your letter for Hester Ann Sparks to day, and will send it to her soon Sir I written you a letter Some tow weeks a go. and sent a stamp for an answer & Direct it to you PO Box 599 Baltimore Md asking you to tell me abouat Henry Miles [interlineation, in a different handwriting: Apr 20th. 1871 “A” 4th USCT] & Mrs Henrietta Emory case She wants me to attend to it for her Please to let me hear from them soon I am yours truly Isaiah H Bayne [Baltimore, Md.] Jany 2nd [18]72 General I have the honor to return herewith all papers in BOTH Pension and A,P, & B claims of Henrietta Emory widow of James Emory “D” 39th, with affidavits of two responsible persons confirming the charges of immorality and cruelty made in the endorsement of 2nd Auditor dated August 8th 1870, This case has been carefully and thoroughly investigated by me and every opportunity afforded claimant for refuting the charges against her, As the soldier left no child I think the father Samuel Emory should be recognised as the legal heir Respectfully Edwd C Knower 1st. Lieut. U.S.A To Brig Genl O. O. Howard Comr Bu &c Isaiah H Bayne to E C Knower Esq, 16 Nov. 1871, filed with claim of Emory, James, Case Files of Pension Claims, series 2002, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives; 1st. Lieut. Edwd C Knower to Brig Genl O. O. Howard, 2 Jan. [18]72, vol. 12, p. 297, Press Copies of Letters Sent, series 1995, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives. No reply to Bayne’s letter has been found in the volumes of press copies of letters sent of the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau. No reply to Lieutenant Knower has been found in the commissioner’s letters-sent volumes. Neither the original copy of Knower’s letter nor its enclosures have been found among the letters received by the commissioner’s office. Henrietta Emory’s claim was listed as closed in the record books of the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau. Accompanying the entry was a note to see the letter book entry dated January 2, 1872 for the conclusion of her case. (Entry for Emory, James, p. 1, Register of Claims not Originally Filed through the Baltimore Office, series 2004, MD Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives.) 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/. Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. A-4102 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/24/1867 Description An account of the resource Contains a series of petitions from Henrietta Emory (wife of deceased James Emory) to various claims agents requesting assistance obtaining the back pay and pension due her upon the death of her husband. She spells out the difficulty that many Black families had accessing the benefits to which they were legally entitled. Title A name given to the resource Henrietta Emory explains that she is too poor to provide evidence in her pension case Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Long Marsh, Queen Anne's Co bureaucracy children claims family illness women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/80ceae567c2a416f467eea64d5560890.pdf 430194eb223dcdc8dec0fc1d2dfea7a6 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/192090bea3f67d9f6dd5576d0e6de9bd.pdf 9263cc6171048467883cce376e8ebc8d 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 Affidavit of a Maryland Freedwoman District of Columbia City of Washington 21st day of Oct 1865 I Jane Uncles a resident of Brookville Montgomery County Maryland having been duly sworn doth depose and say that on or about the 1st of May 1863 my daughter Hanna Warfield, who was then held as a slave by one Thomas Dorsey of Hoods Mills Howard County Maryland, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the State Penitentiary at Baltimore Maryland for the term of ten (10) years I was not present at the trial but understand that my child was sentenced to the Penitentiary for striking Mrs Dorsey and knocking her down. They made it appear that my daughter (so I understood) Hanna made an unprovoked attack upon Mrs Dorsey when the truth was that Mrs Dorsey was whipping her and my daughter goaded by the lash struck her Hanna when sentenced to the Penitentiary was fifteen (15) years of age. her Jane X Uncles mark [Endorsement] Office Supt R.F. and A.L. Dist of Columbia Oct 21st 1865 Respectfully forwarded for the consideration of Col Jno Eaton Jr Ass't Com'r Dist of Columbia with the opinion expressed that the ends of Justice have most certainly been satisfied. This girl having been incarcerated 2 yrs and five months for doing that which any of Gods living creatures have a right to do defend themselves against brutal assaults come from where they may Wm. F. Spurgin Capt Supt Dist of Columbia Affidavit of Jane Uncles, 21 Oct. 1865, Unregistered Letters Received, ser. 457, DC Asst. Comr., RG 105, [A-9884]. Sworn before a Freedmen's Bureau agent. A notation on the outside of the file reads "Action taken in this case." 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 Jane Uncles testifies that her formerly enslaved daughter was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for defending herself during a beating by her enslaver Description An account of the resource Affidavit of Jane Uncles, who says that in 1863 her 15 year old daughter was convicted of striking her mistress & sentenced to 10 years in prison; Uncles says that her daughter defended herself from the beating which her enslaver was in the process of administering to her; the daughter is still in jail. The endorsement notes the right of any of God’s living creatures to defend themselves. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/21/1865 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. A-9884 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Howard Co, MD children incarceration punishment self-defense slavery violence women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/4f5115d16d4ade8ea5b35b6f2361b870.pdf c5a8152b7f91776ea65260ee21e15d36 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/7db714a586f1c2845209303483608e60.pdf 0f35e9ad1fd30e39a72699278cc1852c 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 Statement of a Maryland Mother [Baltimore, Md., December 31, 1864] Case of Kitty Bowland, fw, vs Mr Meredith a Justice of the Peace on Balto [Co?] Statement of Kitty Bowland, fw, Vs. Mr Meredith J.P. charged with putting her son a Boy of 16 years (George Bowland) as a substitute at Ellicotts Mills. on Wednesday last Mr Meredith took the Boy, & a certain Josh Cook (cold man) stole my boy's money. Whereupon he had him arrested. Mr Meredith then charged him with being a Deserter from the army & had him conveyed to Camp Bradford. Mr Meredith refuses to give me any satisfaction, think it very hard that he should be enlisted against his will & not to give me any of the proceeds Kitty X Bowland [Endorsement] Head-Quarters, Middle Department, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS. Baltimore, Md. January 3rd 1865. Respectfully referred to Col. Wm H. Browne A.A.QrM. Genl. Md & Del. who will please call upon the Provost Marshal at Ellicotts Mills for a report in this case. Please return this paper. By Command of Maj. Genl Wallace Saml B Lawrence A.A. Genl. [Endorsement] Office A.A.P.M.G. Md. & Del., Balto., Jan. 4, 1865. Respectfully referred to Capt. Holland, Pro. Mar. 5th Dist. Md., for report. Wm R. Browne Col. & A.A.P.M.G. [Endorsement] Pro. Mar. Off. 5th Dist. Md. Ellicott's Mills, Jan. 9, 1865. Respectfully returned to Col. Wm H. Browne, A.A. Pro. Mar. Gen. for Md. & Del. with following report. George Bowling, (col.) born in West Indies aged 20— 5 feet 8 inches high was enlisted at this office Dec. 29, 1864, as a substitute for Robert Graham a drafted man from the 1st District of Baltimore County. He was put in by Mr. Graham himself, and received two hundred and seventy dollars ($270) Very Respectfully John C. Holland Capt. & Pro. Mar, 5th Dist. Md. [Endorsement] Office A.A.P.M.G. Md. & Del., Balto., Jan. 10, 1865. Respectfully returned to Lt. Col. Sam'l B. Laurence, A.A.G. Mid. Dept. & 8th A.C. with reference to the report of Capt. Holland, Provost Marshal 5th Dist. Md. Wm R. Browne Col. & A.A.P.M. Gen. [Endorsement] Head-Quarters, Middle Department, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS. Baltimore, Md. Jany 11th, 1865. Respectfully referred to Commanding Offi[cer] Camp Bradford who will plea[se] examine this man, and return [this] paper with report and remarks. By command of Maj. Genl. Wallace Saml B Lawrence A.A.G [Endorsement] Head Qrs. U.S. Draft Rendezvous. Baltimore, Md. Jany 13" 1865. Respectfully returned to Maj. Genl. Wallace, Commdg Middle Dept, 8th A.C. with the information that George Bowley was forwarded to Camp Birney, on the 4th day of January 1865. G A Washburn Lieut Col V.R.C. Commdg. [Endorsement] Head-Quarters, Middle Department, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS. Baltimore, Md. Jan. 14th 1865. Respectfully referred to Captain Butler, in charge Bureau of Recruiting Service U.S.C.T., in Baltimore City, who will please examine this man, and return this paper with report and remarks. By Command of Major Genl. Wallace Saml B Lawrence A.A. Genl. [Endorsement] 24 Holiday St. Balto Md. Jany [14?] [1865] Respectfully returned to Maj. Genl. Wallace Comdg. Middle Department. 8th Army Corps, with the information that George Rowley was forwarded to Camp Casey near Alexandria Va. Jany. 8th 1865. By order Capt Jas Bu[tler] [. . .] [Endorsement] Head-Quarters, Middle Department, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 17th 1865. Respectfully forwarded to Col. C. W. Foster, A.A. Genl., for his information and action In the absence of the Maj. Genl. Commanding Saml B Lawrence AAG file Statement of Kitty Bowland, 31 Dec. 1864, B-46 1865, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-117]. 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 Kitty Bowland claims her son was illegally arrested and forced into the Army Description An account of the resource Statement of Mrs. Kitty Bowland that her son was arrested and then impressed into the army by the local justice of the peace. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/31/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ellicott City, Baltimore Co, MD Black soldiers family military discrimination recruitment women https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/a3d00413946a329305aca08cc48fc463.pdf 5c13244807abc9dd5eb1bc22e265f036 https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/16506daeeeb5a48439a39de3e58a807e.pdf 8ecff23b0b25a075385ddd9f6a266361 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. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Headquarters of the Middle Department to the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General for Maryland and Delaware; and the Deputy Provost Marshal of Somerset County to the Provost Marshal General Head Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps, Baltimore, December 2nd 1864 Colonel, I am instructed by the Major General Commanding to request you to direct Mr Levin D Collier Dept: Pro: Marshal at Salisbury, to proceed at once 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. If he fails or refuses to obey your order, to arrest him and send him at once to Baltimore, and deliver him to the Provost Marshal, 8th A.C. I am Colonel Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Saml B Lawrence A. A. G. To Col. Wm H. Browne A.A.P.M.G., Md & Del. Deputy Provost Marshals office Salisbury [Md.] Dec. 9" 1864. Col. Wm H. Browne, A. A. Prov. Mar. Genl. for Maryland & Delaware. Dear Sir— In accordance with instructions received from you, I proceeded to the residence of Joshua H. Phillips, Esq. and demanded the delivery of the children of Sarah Parsons (Col.) The children were delivered to Sarah and said Phillips gave me an instrument of writing relinquishing all claims to them. Very Respectfully Your obdt. Servant Levin D. Collier Dep. Prov. Mar. for Somerset Co. Md Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne, 2 Dec. 1864, filed with Levin D. Collier to Col. Wm H. Browne, 9 Dec. 1864, M-834 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4236]. The children listed as owned by Jos W Phillips on the 1860 census were two girls, one and three years old. 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 Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military Description An account of the resource Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne (AAPMG for MD & DE) directing him to send the deputy pro mar at Salsbury "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." If Phillips refused, he was to be arrested and sent to Baltimore. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/2/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Somerset County, MD Apprentice family women