Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Union Army Commissary. Department Records, 1861-1865.

Call No.

Mss. BG U58a3

Content

Maj. H.C. Symonds 's 15 Jan. 1865 letter to Gen. Robert Allen discusses operations of the Union Army Commissary of Subsistence operations in Louisville and in Jeffersonville, IN. In the letter he writes, "The company of Negro troops is, so far as I can learn, very efficient and faithful as sentinels with out enclosures and on post 24 hours..."

Subject Heading

United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, African American