(CIVIL WAR AFRICAN AMERICANS) Muster roll of 49th United St

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(CIVIL WAR--AFRICAN-AMERICANS.) Muster roll of 49th United States Colored Infantry. Partly-printed manuscript, 21 x 31 inches, signed numerous times by Captain James P. Hall and other officers; wear and early tape repairs at folds. Vicksburg, MS, 28 February 1865

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This muster roll lists the men of Company F in the 49th United States Colored Infantry, formerly the 11th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent). They had seen combat at the Battle of Milliken's Bend, and by this point were doing garrison duty in Vicksburg. Each of the company's 3 officers and 102 enlisted men are named with their rank, where they enlisted, and their pay due. Two officers have signed for their pay, while the African-American enlisted men have signed with their marks. Several of these soldiers were charged with mutiny in June 1864 for having protested their treatment by Captain Hall; two ringleaders were executed, while others were sentenced to hard labor (see Barnickel, Milliken's Bend, page 154). Some of these mutineers are listed as "absent in confinement for mutiny since June 13th 1864." One soldier, Ransom McDaniel, is marked as having died of consumption, and his widow's back pay case was settled in 1881; the note appears over the tape, showing that repairs were made before that point.