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Library of Congress1865

Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, information in relation to the muster-rolls of such of the regiments as have been raised in the State of Maryland in the present war, which were composed, in whole or in part, of those who were, at the time of their enlistment or draft, slaves. January 26, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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Library of Congress1874

In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred petition and papers in the case of Abram Hoevener, late of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, claiming pay of second lieutenant from May 9, 1863, to December 22, 1863, less amount received by him as pay of sergeant of 127th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration and report

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Library of Congress1886

In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany the petition of George B. Proctor and others.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George B. Proctor and others, praying pay as commissioned officers of the Thirty-sixth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, from April 19, 1864, to September 6, 1864, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report

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Library of Congress1868

Address by Daniel Ullmann, LL.D., before the Soldier's and Sailor's Union of the State of New York, on the organization of colored troops and the regeneration of the South : delivered at Albany, February 5, 1868.

Ullmann, a white officer, explains how at Lincoln's direction he organized and armed freed slaves in Louisiana during the Civil War, and he gives his assessment of African American troops based on this experience. In order to regenerate the South, Ullmann argues for removal of all southern state governments, for education and full citizenship for freed slaves, and for the breakup and distribution of large plantations to create a class of loyal yeomanry.

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