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SUFFOLK, Massachusetts in the 1860s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. The Freedmen’s Record Reports on the Prosperity of Freedmen
    date October, 1865 to 1865map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags African-Americans, Economy, Race-Relations, Slavery

    According to the Freedmen’s Record report, many southerners perceived freedmen as “a hopelessly lazy, sensual creature who, if he has enough to satisfy the lowest animal wants, will be content.” They feared that freedmen would resort to theft instead of working to fulfill their needs.  The Record attempted to change these perceptions by exposing the tremendous success of freed African Americans...

  2. The 16th Massachusetts Regiment Disbanded in 1864
    date July 27, 1864map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Infantry, Immigrants, Irish-Americans, Union Army, Civil War

    On July 27, 1864, Private Richard Monnahan was discharged from G Company of the 16th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, on the day the entire regiment was mustered out.  According to his discharge form from the United States Pension Office, Monnahan was 22 years old, five feet five inches tall, of dark complexion with dark grey eyes. The 16th regiment was formed in 1861 and served until July of 1864. ...

  3. The Great Escape (From Fort Warren)
    date November, 1864map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, War

    On a cold night in November 1864, an anonymous prisoner, who referred to himself as "John Paul Brown" in Boston's Dollar Monthly Magazine, assumed the guise of a carriage driver, hijacked a parked supply wagon carrying vegetables, and, "with an artistic flourish of the whip, drove through the opened gates, unrecognized and unchallenged." Several days previously, his accomplice, whom he calls "Jones,"...