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View of five Black people (two men, a woman, and two children), in front of a cabin.

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View of Black men, women, and children seated before, and riding in, a covered wagon. A mounted soldier is visible in the background, presumably a Union soldier based on the cap and dark uniform.

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Abstract Papers document a 19th-century New Hampshire family during the American Civil War. Merritt Morse shared his experiences and perspectives as a U.S. Signal Corpsman in the Union Army in South Carolina, the Sea Islands, and Virginia, as well as an ad hoc minister to formerly enslaved Black communities on the islands, through correspondence home to his wife Hattie. The papers also contain a smaller number of letters to Hattie from her family. Additional materials include carte de visite...

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Three cased photographs of Chandler Robbins, Union soldier in the American Civil War.

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View of five Black children posing with chimney sweeps' tools.

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View of a Union Army signal station, built in a tree, with a flag-carrying soldier standing on top and other men standing near the base of the tree. A sailing ship and city skyline appear in the background. This image appears in The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion (1896), by J. Willard Brown. Attributed to Jay Dearborn Edwards.

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