The Recruitment of Colored Troops in Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, 1863–1865
1967; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1540-6563.1967.tb01864.x
ISSN1540-6563
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. Lincoln to O. H. Browning, September 22, 1861; Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols.; New Brunswick 1953), IV, 531–33.2. Ibid., V, 317–19; J. G. Randall, Lincoln and the South (Baton Rouge, 1946), 49–80; John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln, A History (10 vols.; New York, 1886), IV, 416–20.3. Lincoln to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, Basler, Lincoln's Works, VII, 281–83.4. Ibid., VI, 48–49, 428–29; Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1954), 429; Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, April 25, 1864; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, VIII, 452; J. G. Randall, Lincoln the President (3 vols.; New York, 1945), II, 150, 163, 192.5. Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton, The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War (New York, 1962), 263; Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York, 1962), 152. The slave and free population of the border states in 1860 was Missouri 118,503, Maryland 170,942, and Kentucky 236,167. U. S. Bureau of Census, Negro Population: 1790–1915 (Washington, 1915), 57.6. Charles B. Clark, Politics in Maryland During the Civil War (Chestertown, 1952), 100; Thomas H. Hicks to Lincoln, September 4, 1863; Brigadier General John W, Schofield to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, September 26, 1863, Negro in the Military Service (MSS), III, Pt. I, 1555–57, 1636–38, Adjutant General's Office (AGO), Record Group (RG) 94, National Archives (NA) (hereafter cited as NIMS). The Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862, provided that the slaves of persons engaged in, or in sympathy with the rebellion within the jurisdiction of, escaping to, or captured by military authorities should be freed. The theory was that some of the slaves would be enlisted as soldiers. James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (Urbana, Illinois, 1951), 357–65.7. Stanton to Lincoln, October 1, 1863, NIMS, III, Pt. 1, 1642–44.8. General Orders, No. 329, War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols.; Washington, 18801901), Series 3, Vol. III, 861 (hereafter cited as OR).9. Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, October 21, 1863; Stanton to Schofield, November 13, 1863, General Orders, No. 135, Department of the Missouri, OR, Ser. 3, 215; Bradford to Stanton, October 3, 1863, NIMS, III, Pt. 1, 1652–53; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia 1863 (42 vols.; New York, 1863), III, 615.10. Ellis M. Coulter, The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky (Chapel Hill, 1926), 47–52; Stanton to Lincoln, October 1, 1863, NIMS, III, Pt. 1, 1642–44.11. Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment, 53.12. Lincoln to O. H. Browning, September 22, 1861, Basler, Lincoln's Works, IV, 531–33.13. Bramlette to Stanton, June 20, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2636–38.14. Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, March 10, 1864; Captain J. R. Grissom to J. B. Fry, Provost Marshal General, NIMS, VI, 3658–60.15. Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1864, IV, 447.16. Thomas to Stanton, February 1, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2345–46; W. H. Sidell, Provost Marshal General of Kentucky, to J. B. Fry, Provost Marshal, U. S. A., March 12, 1864, OR, Ser. 3, 174–75. The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, March 11, 16, 1864; Lincoln to Stanton, March 28, 1864, Lincoln to A. G. Hodges, Editor, Frankfort Commonwealth, April 4, 1864, Basler, Lincoln's Works, VII, 272, 281–83.17. General Orders, No. 11, 8th Army Corps, NIMS, IV, 2431.18. Thomas to Stanton, June 25, 1864; ibid., IV, 2643–44; Louisville (Ky.) Daily Democrat, July 16, 1864.19. Lincoln to Lt. Col. Glenn, Commanding, Post at Henderson, Kentucky. February 7, 1865, Basler, Lincoln's Works, VIII, 266.20. Colonel William Birney, Chief Recruiting Officer, Negro Troops, Maryland, to Thomas, February 4, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2358.21. Bowman to Stanton, April 29, 1864, Ibid., IV, 2521.22. St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, August 24, 1863, Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1864 and 1865, IV, 454, 502–03, 552–53; V, 458–66; James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 385–89; NIMS, VI, 3595, 3605–08, 3625–26.23. Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 597–98.24. Clark, Politics in Maryland, 100; Bond to Stanton, August 15, 1863; John Frazier, Jr. to Stanton, September 21, 1863, NIMS, III, Pt. 1, pp. 1484–90, 1593–94; The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and the District of Columbia (Baltimore, 1879), 476–77; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1863, III, 616–25.25. Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, February 8, 1864.26. St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, September 4, 1863.27. Ibid., September 29, 31, November 28, 1863; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1863, III, 655–57; Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, 425–29; Basler, Lincoln's Works, VI, 499–504.28. There were 19,185 whites (out of a total of 1,069,509) who owned 114,931 slaves in 1860. Walter Williams, Missouri: Mother of the West (2 vols.; New York, 1930), II, 13–15.29. St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, December 22, 1863 and January 5, 1864; Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, January 24 and 28, 1864; NIMS, IV, 2332–36; Walter B. Stevens, Missouri the Center State, 1821–1915 (2 vols.; Chicago, 1915), I, 31.30. Charles D. Drake, Union and Anti‐Slavery Speeches (Cincinnati, 1864), 403–31; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1864, IV, 450–51 (Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas were represented).31. Louisville (Ky.) Daily Democrat, March 13, and September 16, 1864; J. W. Suddarth, Postmaster, Columbia, Kentucky, to S. G. Suddarth, Quartermaster General of Kentucky, July 2, 1864; General Orders, No. 117, Department of Kentucky, March 24, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2420–22, 2442–43, 2456; Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment, 207–08.32. Congressional Globe, March 8, 1864, 1st Session, 38th Congress, Pt. 2, 1029–30.33. Holt to Stanton, July 31, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2731–32.34. Capt. James M. Fidler, to J. M. Sidell, June 15, 1865; Ibid., VI, 3666–72.35. Fidler to James B. Fry, Provost Marshal General; Ibid., IV, 2600.36. Sidell to Fry, June [15]?, 1865; Ibid., IV, 3673–78.37. Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, November 5, 1863.38. St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, December 1, 1863.39. Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, March 24, 1864; Holt to Stanton, July 31, 1864, NIMS, IV, 2731–32; Baltimore Daily Gazette, October 23, 1863.40. Baltimore Daily Gazette, October 30, December 11 and 15, 1863; Major C. W. Foster, A. A. G. to S. M. Bowman, October 31, 1864, Letters sent, III (MSS) AGO, RG94, N.A.41. A. Briscoe Koger, The Maryland Negro in Our Wars (Baltimore, 1942), 8; Foster to E. D. Townsend, A.A.G., October 21, 1865, NIMS, VI, 3696–718; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1865, V, 459.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn W. BlassingameThe author is a third‐year graduate student at Yale University
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