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Union Civil War Soldiers and their Relationships with Blacks
Written on:June 2, 2011
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(Note: title originally read: “Contraband of War” but was removed) Albert O. Marshall soldiered in the 33rd Illinois Infantry and served primarily along the Trans-Mississippi region from Missouri to Louisiana. In his journal (published in 1883) that he kept during the war, Marshall wrote the following comments concerning one of their early encounters with Negroes while in the South: “That these poor frightened negroes, who all their lives had been…
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