Rufus Saxton papers, 1863 Jan 4-1866 Mar. 25.

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Rufus Saxton papers, 1863 Jan 4-1866 Mar. 25.

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List of officers, 4 Jan. 1863; "List of Civilians employed as Teachers and Superintendents," 8 June 1863, re Port Royal Island, Parris Island, Ladies Island, St. Helena Island, plus 8 others, "residing on Plantations who are not strictly Gov't Employees ... "; 27 June 1863, endorsement of J. Newton Stanger for exemption from military duty; and printed message, 27 July 1863, "To the Colored Soldiers and Freedmen In this Department: It is fitting that you should pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Colonel of the 54th Regt. of Massachusetts Volunteers ... The truths and principles for which he fought and died still live, and will be vindicated" and urging troops to fund a monument for Shaw. Printed agreement, 1863, for persons purchasing abandoned lands for non-payment of taxes, in which signer would agree to pay Saxton (in his capacity as Military Governor), fair compensation for any work done prior to sale in preparing land for planting next cotton crop; purchaser was also required to agree not to interfere "during this season, with any Negro, in respect to lands which have already been allotted to him for raising his own subsistence ... "; letter, 17 Aug. 1865, to Col. George N. [Henry] Nye, Maine Volunteers; and General Orders No. 11, 28 Aug. 1865, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, South Carolina and Georgia. Letter, 25 Mar. 1866, Washington, D.C., to Rev. [Samuel?] Harris, acknowledging Harris' letter and his approbation of Saxton's work in S.C., "For the work I did in So. Ca. I have the approval of my own conscience and I look upon it with more pleasure than any of my life experiences" and discussing terms of payment for Harris' lease on "the portion now vacant" of Saxton's furnished home in Beaufort [John A. Cuthbert House, 1203 Bay Street, owned by Saxton until 1882].

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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 ...

Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...