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J. C. Brubaker, letter
March 28, 1868
"Harpers Ferry March 28th 1868. Dear Sir: I have just returned from Sharpsburg and Boonsboro. I have arranged for the teacher you mentioned to go to Sharpsburg. The colored people are very anxious to have the school opened and from...
Full DetailsSamuel Ferguson, letter
June 21, 1869
"June the 21 1869 Dear Sir youres of the 13 may was received with much plesher infourming aus that you wood give aus a teacher the 18 of June we were All readey to receive hiem but we were disapointed...
Full DetailsSamuel Ferguson, letter
April 28, 1868
"Bureau Refugees, Freedmen &c. Hd. Qtr's, 5 Sub Dist Harper’s Ferry April 28, 1868. Dear Sir: When Mr. Johnson teach, at Sharpsburg came here, it was understood by the colored people that they were to defray the expenses incidental to...
Full DetailsWesley Norris, testimony
1859-1863; April 14, 1866
“My name is Wesley Norris; I was born a slave on the plantation of George Parke Custis; after the death of Mr. Custis, Gen. Lee, who had been made executor of the estate, assumed control of the slaves, in number...
Full DetailsChristina (Teany) Watson, testimony
September 17, 1862; 1915
"XII The Slave Woman at the Tavern1 I WAS the cook at Delaney’s Tavern hyar in Sharpsburg when the battle was fought. That was a big time, yes, a big time, and I never want to see no such time...
Full DetailsStephen Pembroke, testimony
July 18, 1854
“Stephen Pembroke was enslaved on the farm of Jacob Grove on the west side of Sharpsburg, Maryland. This is Pembroke’s testimony “at the Tabernacle,” as quoted by the New York Tribune, July 18, 1854.” “I set out to escape from...
Full DetailsRufus Ingalls, letter
October 23, 1862
“I am well aware that the loyal people of this section of Maryland have suffered severely during this campaign and doubtless to any extent beyond any relief they will ever obtain. I regret that they cannot receive full compensation now...
Full DetailsWilliam Roulette, letter
November 1, 1862
“Buriel [sic] ground for seven hundred Soldiers $130.00.”
Full DetailsLewis Charlton, memoir
1814, 1862, 1866
"I was born in Frederick County, Maryland, between Frederick City and Point of Rocks, very near the town of Buckiston, in the year 1814. My father and mother were both born slaves, my father was sold in Georgia when I...
Full DetailsHilary Watson, testimony
September 17, 1862; 1915
"XI The Slave Foreman1 WELL, sir, if I live to see the first day of May, I’ll be eighty-one years old. I was thirty when the battle of Antietam was fought. My home hyar in Sharpsburg is only about two...
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