1864 CIVIL WAR newspaper w TWO REPORTS UNION ARMY NEGR0 RECRUITING in Maryland

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1864 CIVIL WAR newspaper with TWO headline REPORTS announcing UNION ARMY NEGR0 RECRUITING in Maryland, including a FRONT PAGE report listing recruiting stations in Ellicott City, Frederick, Hagerstown and Cumberland
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Alexandria Gazette
(NY) dated March 11, 1864, with fantastic CIVIL WAR BLACK history!
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Organized in Baltimore in September of 1863, the 7th USCT, was engaged in many of the eastern theater of combat’s bloodiest engagements. Former slaves and freedmen alike from all across the state flocked to the regiment. So many formerly enslaved recruits enlisted from southern Maryland that the regiment opened a temporary recruitment office in Mill Stone Landing — near modern day California, Maryland.
4th United States Colored Troops. Photo from the Library of Congress.4th United States Colored Troops. Photo from the Library of Congress.
The regiment saw service in Florida and South Carolina before returning to Virginia for the conclusion of the fighting in the trenches around Richmond and Petersburg. When those two citadel cities finally fell to the Union Army, the 7th USCT, along with other USCT regiments, joined the pursuit of Robert E. Lee and his tattered Army of Northern Virginia across the 90 or so miles to Appomattox Court House. There, on the morning of April 9, 1865, as Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee contemplated a final surrender and conclusion to their hostilities, the 7th USCT was engaged in a final clash.
Often overshadowed by the surrender which occurred later that day, the fighting began at dawn of April 9, 1865 when Confederate troops under Major General John B. Gordon assaulted Union cavalry positions. While the Confederate assault was initially effective, once the Confederate troops overtook the first Union line — they encountered tens of thousands of fresh Union troops waiting over the next ridgeline. It was a near impossibility that the assault could be sustained and Gordon remarked that he had fought his troops to a “frazzle.”
The Union Army 25th Corps, which included the 7th USCT, was engaged during this final clash — with nearly 5,000 African-American troops present for the combat. Following the combat, Lee was certain of the need to surrender and the meeting with Grant and formal ceremony that has filled so many history books would follow.
The 7th USCT would continue its service until 1866 as a part of the Union Army positioned around the south during reconstruction. It was disbanded in 1866 with many of its veterans returning to their native home of Maryland. Unfortunately, their fight for liberty and equality had only just begun. Sgt. Maj. William McCeslin of the 29th USCT ominously concluded that, “We, the colored soldiers, have fairly won our rights by loyalty and bravery — shall we obtain them? If we are refused now, we shall demand them.”
Very Good Condition, with a chip above the masthead on the front page.
This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper.
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