Petition from Lewis H. Douglass and Others to the Secretary of War
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This item consists of a petition from Lewis H. Douglass, late Sergeant Major of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored), and nine others concerning the raising "of colored regiments, to be officered exclusively by colored men."
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