A SLAVE JOINS THE ARMY (MILITARY.) Partly Printed Documents from the Office of the U. S. Board of Claims, Accomplished in Manuscript, one a Proof of Ownership of a slave who enlisted in the Army, the other an Appropriation of $100 to the slave's former owner. 2 pages, folio and 4to; each Signed by the appropriate officials; both franked with Internal Revenue stamps; docketed on verso. Baltimore, April 1865
Uncommon Legal Instruments. The Proof of Ownership states that Emeline McWilliams was the owner of a slave named Cyrus Collins, who enlisted in the 9th Regiment United States Colored Troops. The second document states that the slave did enlist and further appropriates the sum of $100 to the former owner of the soldier.
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