https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/e82ce31f2053ac367ba6eda5fe284698.pdf c35a68f52261dce981bd877611400cad https://fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/f96d9677418ba61db3a834250aaa1726.pdf a5fce975006a4a838c9a751e277e3955 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 Anonymous Resident of Maryland to the Secretary of War Balt Nov 8th 1866 Hon Edwin M. Stanton Secatary of War Washington D.C. Sir. I write to inform you that the 7th Regt U.S.C.T. is at Fort Federal Hill Balt waiting their discharge. I have been informed that everything is complete for mustering them out. and that they are held for the sole reason that they will not turn their Discharges over to a certin claim agent in Balt city without ever seeing their discharges. Now I think that these men are entitled when mustered out to receive their discharges in their own hands and collect their own Bounty or give it to who they Please to collect it is a gross outrage upon the soldier to be compelled to give his discharge over to some man who he does not know without ever seeing his discharge these facts I learn from the men themselves that the only reason they are held is they must turn over their discharges to a certin claim agent who I suppose has entered into an Agreement with the officers to that effect It is your duty to see that these men does not have so gross an outrage practiced upon them and I appeal to you as a soldier friend to give this your Speedy attention by allowing these men to have their own discharge when mustered out or these soldiers will be receive but half of their Md state Bounty which they are entitled to Yours Respectfully A Soldier Friend A Soldier Friend to Edwin M. Stanton, 8 Nov. 1866, A 215 1866, Letters Received, ser. 360, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B 321]. A note on the wrapper reads “file.” 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 Soldier Friend" reports on an apparent scheme by Army officers to defraud Black soldiers of their bounty claims Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/8/1866 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Baltimore, MD Black soldiers fraud