Papers, 1862-1899.

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Papers, 1862-1899.

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The letters in the collection were written between September 19, 1862, and May 10, 1865, and were written for the most part by Rufus Kinsley to his father, brothers, and sister in Fletcher, Vt., from Louisiana and Mississippi when he was an officer in a black regiment. Rufus writes of his disillusionment with the war, his sympathy to the black population, and his work, as well that of other officers in his regiment, in teaching the black soldiers to read and write. Ben Kinsley wrote two letters in the collection one to Rufus and one to his daughter, Lucretia. Miscellaneous papers include several unidentified hand-written poems, and Rufus Kinsley's provisional commission as a 2nd Lieutenant (August 25, 1863). While Rufus Kinsley was with the 8th Vermont Regiment, he copied two sections from the laws of Louisiana (May 20, 1862) which "illustrate the barbarism of slavery as it exists in the southern half of this Nation," and a New Orleans ordinance granting permission to the members of the Coliseum Place Baptist Church to establish a church (April 24, 1858). Also included are a broadside titled "American Baptist Churches-New Orleans, Mayor's Office, City Hall, January 3, 1857;" several letters to Rufus Kinsley from Vermont Senator George F. Edmunds in regard to Kinsley's pension claim, and a chronological hand-written list of the battles of the Civil War, the commanders and the respective union and rebel losses.

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