Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 14 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
... of 1863 by the negroes whom he recruited.
Lewis Hayden, the colored janitor of the State House, always claimed the credit of having suggested to Governor Andrew to organize a colored regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. William S. Robinson, who was then Clerk of the State Senate, supported Hayden in this; but he also remarked that Representative Durfee, of New Bedford, proposed a bill in May, 1861, for t...
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| † | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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