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Title: Pacific Appeal - August 23, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
As the Civil War is taking its toll and depleting the ranks of Union soldiers, the writer asks when the northern effort will see the benefit of recruiting African American soldiers.
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Title: Pacific Appeal - November 1, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer tells his readers that there are now African American troops organized and ready to fight for the Confederacy. While there are people on the Union side of this war who align with system of slavery, the greater irony he finds is with an army company of slaves fighting for slavery in the southern states.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column