Skip to content

The Black Military Experience

Stories

Freedman/Freedom Documents

Mother of a Northern Black Soldier to the President, July 31, 1863

Massachusetts Black Corporal to the President, September 28, 1863

Marriage Certificate of a Black Soldier and His Wife, December 3, 1863

Missouri Black Soldier to His Enslaved Daughters, and to the Owner of One of His Daughters

North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner

Maryland Fugitive Slave to His Wife, January 12, 1862

Commander of the 5th Division of the Army of the Tennessee to a Tennessee Slaveholder

Testimony by the Superintendent of Contrabands at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission

Maryland Slave to the President, August 25, 1864

Louisiana Planters to the Commander of the Department of the Gulf, January 14, 1863

Testimony by a South Carolina Freedman before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, June 1863

North Carolina Freedmen to the Commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina

Keeper of Sandy Point Lighthouse to a Baltimore Judge, November 6, 1864

Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities, January 12, 1865

Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, January 15, 1865