. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. CONTRABAN NEGRO TEAMSTERS NEAR BUTLERS SIGNAL TOWER, BERMUDA HUNDRED, 186-1 The history and nature of contraband of war, so expressively illustrated by this photograph, are thus ex-plained by < reorge Haven Putnam: Early in the war. (reneral Benjamin F. Butler invented the term con-traband, which came to be accepted as the most convenient classification for the colored refugee who hadmade his way within the Federal lines and who. w
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. CONTRABAN NEGRO TEAMSTERS NEAR BUTLERS SIGNAL TOWER, BERMUDA HUNDRED, 186-1 The history and nature of contraband of war, so expressively illustrated by this photograph, are thus ex-plained by < reorge Haven Putnam: Early in the war. (reneral Benjamin F. Butler invented the term con-traband, which came to be accepted as the most convenient classification for the colored refugee who hadmade his way within the Federal lines and who. while no longer a slave or a piece of property, was not yetaccepted as a person. It was the legal theory of Ibitler that the property rights in the refugee who had Keena slave had. under war conditions. Keen annulled. Throughout the war, the information of happeningswithin the enemys lines was frequently enough brought to our headquarters by the (more or less) intel-ligent contraband. As far as my experience goes, the colored reporter was always willing and eager tohelp. I know of no single instance on record in which fals
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