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Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military
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…
Report that free Black Marylanders were held in jail to compel them to enlist in the Army
Lt. M. Karney (cmdg post at Newton) to Lt. James C. Mullikin reporting on the conditions of the jail in Princess Ann, where several Black prisoners are held, apparently without charges. Some appear to have been enslaved and at least one discharged…
Amid widespread abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind formerly enslaved children, Governor Bradford complains about oversight efforts
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…
General Edward A. Wild reports on an apparent scheme to defraud Black recruits of a portion of their pay by listing them as deserters
General Edwd. A. Wild to Col. C.W. Foster (A.A.G.), In the Field, Chapin's Farm, VA identifying an evident scheme to defraud Black recuits of a portion of their pay by declaring them deserters despite having failed to notify them of their recruitment…
General Joseph Hooker directs his subordinates to send Black men into rebel territory to search for their families and gather military intelligence
Capt. Joseph Dickinson (AAG) to Brig. Gen, Daniel E. Sickles ordering the sending out of all Black Marylanders who will be likely to gather information on the rebel forces on the south side of the Rappahanock. They have families on the other side of…
Black war widow Liomia Potter writes to the Adjutant General of the Army for information about her husband
Liomia Potter to L. Thomas, from Baltimore 11 Nov 1864 stating that she has not heard from her husband in months who is in 4th USCT. Adds that she and others "are all poor women from the Eastern Shore of Md just out of slavery."
Black mother Delia Fry writes to the Adjutant General of the Army for information about her son
Delia Fry to Thomas from Baltimore, 21 Oct 1864 stating that she has heard that her son Jesse Fry of 4th USCT has been killed and he was her only source of support.
Officers collect evidence that the commander of a white Maryland regiment interfered with Black enlistment
Service record of Col. James Wallace, 1st E.S. Md. Vol. Inf., containing testimony regarding the interference by Wallace of Black recruitment in Maryland.
Charges brought against the commander of a white Maryland regiment for interfering with Black enlistment
Service record of Col. James Wallace, 1st E.S. Md. Vol. Inf., containing a witness statement by Col. William Birney regarding the interference by Wallace of Black recruitment in Maryland, who wrote that Wallace termed Black enlistment "'stealing' and…