The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], An official negro minstrel.

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An official negro minstrel.

--Lieut. Pendergrass, of the Seventy-first Regiment of New York, who with twenty-two of his men worked one of the guns of the Anacosta, on the occasion of the recent attack upon Aquia Creek, is a member of Bryant's band of negro minstrels. He is also the proprietor of a New York ‘"rum mill"’ and gambling hell — the headquarters of John C. Heenan, the Benicia Boy, and the bristle-headed fraternity of fighters generally. He is a little man with a very large voice, a pock marked face, and never more in his element than under a nigger wig, and a physiognomy of burnt cork, dangling away his part in a minstrel performance, upon a triangle.--Such is the ‘"elite"’ of the New York Seventy-first.

The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 8, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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An official negro minstrel.