Materials for Chase Exhibit
http://home.att.net/~cwppds/10usct.htm Among others, lists names of african-american soldiers who enlisted at Craney Island in 1863
Monitor, Merrimac, and the Virginia and Craney Island
Freedmen, The Freed Slaves of the Civil War Includes two reports of the Inquiry Commision, the first of which definitely mentions Craney Island: Freedmen and Craney Island
Lincoln's Plan for Colonizing the Emancipated Negroes includes a reference to a military hospital on Craney Island?
Claiming Their Heritage: African-American Women in Virginia, the Civil War, and Emancipation1
By Antoinette G. van Zelm
College of William & Mary
(Cannot quote without permission.)
Includes following info. in footnote:
"Thomas C. Parramore with Peter C. Stewart and Tommy L. Bogger, Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994), 203; Ervin Jordan, Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995), 283- 285; Litwack, Been in the Storm, 97-98. African-American women and men who worked for the government on Craney Island in 1864 found their pay slow in coming. "A list of men and Women who have worked for Goverment [sic] under Captain O. Brown AQM at Craney Island," Fortress Monroe, Va., 14 April 1864; Miscellaneous Records, 1863 & 1864, Dept. of Negro Affairs, Ft. Monroe, Va., #4113; Records of Subordinate Field Offices, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105; National Archives, Washington, D.C."
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Sources
"88. Chase, Lucy, 1822-1909, Dear Ones at Home: Letters from Contraband Camps, Swint, Henry L., (Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, 1966). [Author Information] [Bibliographic Details]
When Lucy Chase (1822-1909) and her sister, Sarah Chase (1836-1911), single women from a well-to-do Quaker family of Worcester, Massachusetts, arrived at the contraband camp established on Craney Island near Norfolk, Virginia, in 1863, they found the needs of the newly freed slaves assembled there to be overwhelming. They commenced their work of dispensing material aid, establishing schools, and preparing black people to become self-sufficient, work they continued in other locations in the South for much of the decade. The correspondence of the Chase sisters, which spans the years 1861-70 and includes a number of letters from New England supporters and blacks whom the sisters had taught, constitutes a valuable source for examining the interaction of female humanitarians from the north with federal officials, ex-slaves, and white southerners. Lucy Chases's richly detailed accounts of the life histories of former slaves and the beliefs and religious practices of the black community are of unusual interest. "
Homepage for site is here, but can enter for fee only.
American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Report (June 30, 1863)
memory.loc.gov/mss/mal/maltext/rtf_orig/mal035f.rtf
"We want more attention to the advance and success of the army and less to the education of the blacks. The negroes falling in with the army must of course be taken care of, but let us do it with some reference to the health of the recipient. I had charge of five hundred and fifty six blacks, fed them in the way I thought best for them and I lost but five, four of which were children, and the other an old man 85 years old. Get the number of deaths from there since I relinquished control and you will be some what alarmed. I can if the Department desire it furnish them with the kind and quantity of rations issued by me.
There is an abolition feeling there that calls for correction. He who truckles to it will be successful at the present time at least. But will the country be benefited? Is it right to detail the soldiers to perform laboring work while the blacks go to school?"
Monitor, Merrimac, and the Virginia and Craney Island
Freedmen, The Freed Slaves of the Civil War Includes two reports of the Inquiry Commision, the first of which definitely mentions Craney Island: Freedmen and Craney Island
Lincoln's Plan for Colonizing the Emancipated Negroes includes a reference to a military hospital on Craney Island?
Claiming Their Heritage: African-American Women in Virginia, the Civil War, and Emancipation1
By Antoinette G. van Zelm
College of William & Mary
(Cannot quote without permission.)
Includes following info. in footnote:
"Thomas C. Parramore with Peter C. Stewart and Tommy L. Bogger, Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994), 203; Ervin Jordan, Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995), 283- 285; Litwack, Been in the Storm, 97-98. African-American women and men who worked for the government on Craney Island in 1864 found their pay slow in coming. "A list of men and Women who have worked for Goverment [sic] under Captain O. Brown AQM at Craney Island," Fortress Monroe, Va., 14 April 1864; Miscellaneous Records, 1863 & 1864, Dept. of Negro Affairs, Ft. Monroe, Va., #4113; Records of Subordinate Field Offices, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105; National Archives, Washington, D.C."
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Sources
"88. Chase, Lucy, 1822-1909, Dear Ones at Home: Letters from Contraband Camps, Swint, Henry L., (Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, 1966). [Author Information] [Bibliographic Details]
When Lucy Chase (1822-1909) and her sister, Sarah Chase (1836-1911), single women from a well-to-do Quaker family of Worcester, Massachusetts, arrived at the contraband camp established on Craney Island near Norfolk, Virginia, in 1863, they found the needs of the newly freed slaves assembled there to be overwhelming. They commenced their work of dispensing material aid, establishing schools, and preparing black people to become self-sufficient, work they continued in other locations in the South for much of the decade. The correspondence of the Chase sisters, which spans the years 1861-70 and includes a number of letters from New England supporters and blacks whom the sisters had taught, constitutes a valuable source for examining the interaction of female humanitarians from the north with federal officials, ex-slaves, and white southerners. Lucy Chases's richly detailed accounts of the life histories of former slaves and the beliefs and religious practices of the black community are of unusual interest. "
Homepage for site is here, but can enter for fee only.
American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Report (June 30, 1863)
memory.loc.gov/mss/mal/maltext/rtf_orig/mal035f.rtf
"We want more attention to the advance and success of the army and less to the education of the blacks. The negroes falling in with the army must of course be taken care of, but let us do it with some reference to the health of the recipient. I had charge of five hundred and fifty six blacks, fed them in the way I thought best for them and I lost but five, four of which were children, and the other an old man 85 years old. Get the number of deaths from there since I relinquished control and you will be some what alarmed. I can if the Department desire it furnish them with the kind and quantity of rations issued by me.
There is an abolition feeling there that calls for correction. He who truckles to it will be successful at the present time at least. But will the country be benefited? Is it right to detail the soldiers to perform laboring work while the blacks go to school?"
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