Condition of the Negroes who came into Vicksburg with Sherman's Army

Item Information

• Description
  Letter from N. M. Mann, "agent of the Western Sanitary Commission" to Rev. Dr. Eliot, acting president of the Commission, describing "affecting scenes and incidents" of the terrible "condition of the Negroes who came into Vicksburg with Sherman's Army". He makes an appeal for generous charitable contributions for the "Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair for freedmen and refugees" needed to feed, clothe and care for them.

• Item ID
  bdsms21226
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Mississippi
  Warren County (Miss.)
  Vicksburg (Miss.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Condition of the Negroes who came into Vicksburg with Sherman's Army
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1864-03-07
• Folder
  MS2
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  circular letters
• Subject
  Slavery
  African Americans--History
  Military campaigns
  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

• Copyright & Usage
  None