Sunday, September 13, 2009

Public Domain Books that Refer to New Market Heights and Colored Troops

Submitted by Cpl Brooks
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Public Domain Books Mentioning Colored Troops
and The Battle of Market Heights

Free books which may be helpful for background on the upcoming commemoration. If you find any particularly notable, please share any comments you have.

Ohio in the war: her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers‎ - Page 917

by Whitelaw Reid - History - 1868
... 1804. occurred the battle of Chapin's Farm, the storming of New Market
Heights, and the capture of Fort Harrison. At daylight the colored troops moved
...

A history of the Negro troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 ...‎ - Page 338

by George Washington Williams - History - 1887 - 353 pages
Suffolk ' on their colors for their conduct in the battle of March 9th near ...
"Second-lieutenant Alpheus K. Long, Seventh United States Colored Troops; ...

The Drapers in America: being a history and genealogy of those of that name ...‎ - Page 210

by Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper - Reference - 1892 - 312 pages
John A. Andrew, as to Major Draper's fitness to command colored troops, Col. ...
where he participated in the battle of New Market Heights, Sep. 29, 1864. ...

Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States‎ - Page 847

by United States. Congress. Senate - Biography & Autobiography - 1887
Captain WH Barrett, of the Fortieth United States Colored Troops, for faithful
and ... services at the battle of New Market Heights, and also at the ...

The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ...‎ - Page 212

Juvenile Nonfiction - 1875
I went myself with the colored troops, to attack the enemy at New Market Heights
, which was the key to the enemy's flank on the north side of James River. ...

The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ...‎ - Page 212

Juvenile Nonfiction - 1875
I wont myself with tho colored troops, to attack the enemy at New Market Heights
, ... they are up again and wave their starry light over the storm of battle ...

Civil and Mexican wars, 1861, 1846‎ - Page 311

by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts - History - 1913 - 660 pages
THE CRATER At the battle of the Crater, at Petersburg, July 30, 1864, the
colored troops were ordered in after the assault was a bloody failure. ...

Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events: Embracing ...‎ - Page 212

Juvenile Nonfiction - 1875
I went myself with the colored troops, to attack the enemy at Now Market Heights
, ... they are up again and wave their starry light over the storm of battle ...

Official roster of the soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the ...

by Ohio. Roster commission - History - 1893
1st Lieutenant 5th US Colored Troops, and А. С. М. 3d Division, late 10th AC,
... 29, 1864, in battle of New Market Heights, Va. 26 Simpson, William Smith,
...

The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion‎ - Page 306

by Henry F. W. Little - History - 1896 - 677 pages
Line of battle was at once formed, and the troops advanced upon the enemy's ...
This assault, made by General Paine's colored troops at New Market Heights, ...




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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Accessible Archives

Reviewing my email I came some interesting material that I had overlooked from
Sgt. Algernon Ward. He's found a resource, 'Accessible Archives' , for primary source documents from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Sample:

June 25, 1864
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For the Christian Recorder.

FLORIDA CORRESPONDENCE.

Head Quarters 3rd U.S.C.T.
Jacksonville, Florida,
May 29th, 1864.

MR. EDITOR: - I, now, this beautiful Sunday afternoon, sit myself down, according to promise, to write a few lines to you, hoping they may find you and all your friends enjoying good health.

I will commence my correspondence with you by giving you my Florida Expeditions. Our regiment left Hilton Head on the 6th of February, for Jacksonville, Fla., and we arrived there on the 8th. Just as soon as we landed we were ordered to camp. Here we remained until the 8th of February, when we received orders, in the night, to surprise the rebel camp, called "Camp Finagan," about ten miles from Jacksonville. We got to the rebel camp about 1 o'clock at night, but were too late to do any good; but we had the pleasure of liberating some of our flesh and blood. There were about two hundred slaves at that place that had the pleasure of saying: "We are free from the chains and fetters of slavery." On the morning of the 9th we were ordered to fall in and march to the next station, called by the natives of the State, "Ten Mile Station." There our mounted infantry had a little skirmish with Gen. Finagan's men, and we captured four pieces of artillery from the rebels; and our regiment, of Col. Halley's brigade, was ordered to stay till the gallant 8th regiment came up to us....

Corp. Leon Brooks, 6thusct and 1st Rhode Island Regiment

Monday, March 24, 2008

Philadelphia History Program

Event: Presenter: JULIE WINCH, Lecture and
Booksigning: THE LIFE OF JAMES FORTEN
Julie Winch is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, but hardly a stronger to Philadelphia. She has published three books on the history of Philadelphia’s African American community including: Philadelphia’s Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy 1787-1848, The Elite of Our People, and A Gentleman of Color: The life of James Forten. James Forten was a free man in Revolutionary Era Philadelphia. He earned great wealth as a sailmaker and philanthropist and worked closely with Absolom Jones and Rev. Richard Allen in the anti-slavery movement. Winch notes that when James Forten died in 1842, five thousand mourners, black and white, turned out to honor a man who had earned the respect of society across the racial divide. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.
Date: March 26, 2008
Time: 5:00 – 6:30PM
Admission: $7.00

Disribution:circulated by Joe Becton, 3rd Regt USCT/1st Rhode Island Regt.

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