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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence Concerning Contrabands. (search)
ny resistance. My duty here is simply to enforce the Constitution and laws, as construed by the early fathers, and in obedience to my superior officers. Very respectfully, Geo H. Biddle, Col. 95th Reg't N. Y. State Vol. Inf., com. Post. Thomas A. Miller, Esq., Charles co., Md. Charles County, Md., July 8, 1862. Lieutenant Ross.Dear Sir --Colonel Biddle refers me to you in the matter of runaway negroes I will esteem it a favor to be furnished with a certificate, endorsed by the-Are we of the border States to be taxed to furnish rations to our own negroes. If officers in the army can't catch slaves for their lawful owners, how is it they can catch them for themselves or for the Government? If you order this man and his family from your post, they will be likely to come home. Maryland negroes, I presume, don't come home. Maryland negroes, I presume, don't come under the head of contrabands. Respectfully, yours, Thomas A. Miller, Nanjemoy, Charles county, Md.