Letters, 1862-1864.

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Letters, 1862-1864.

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Letters addressed to Gen. Rufus Saxton in Beaufort, S.C. comment on the conscription of African-American troops, distribution of land to African-Americans, and dealing with African-American laborers. Includes Saxton's commission of June 16, 1862.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908

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Saxton was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan Ashley Saxton, was a Unitarian and a Transcendentalist whose feminist and abolitionist writings were heard on the lyceum circuit. He descended from a family of Unitarian ministers (Ashley, Williams, Edwards). His father attempted to secure a place for Rufus Saxton at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a transcendentalist community started by George Ripley and attended by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rufus Saxton's brother Samuel ...

United States. Army. Dept. of the South.

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