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CSPAN3 May 12, 2012

thank you for joining us here on american history tv at the animal me annual meeting. really enjoyed talking to you both. thank you. thank you. thank you. this week on the civil war harry jones, curator and assistant director at african-american civil war memorial and museum, talks about the contributions of african-american women during the war. this is 90 minutes. good evening. when our founding director, dr. frank smith jr. and secretary of state colin powell designated spirit of freedom, african-american civil war memorial in july of 1998 attention was brought to one of the best kept secrets in american history. attention was brought to to the 209,145 soldiers and officers that were officially mustered into the bureau of the united states troops. attention was brought to how these soldiers were organized, how they fought, and what they accomplished in the civil war. attention was brought to an african descent community that fought to save the union and f ....

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CSPAN3 May 12, 2012

she would sing for him and during the time that lincoln is writing the emancipation prospective whatlati proclamation, he is coming here and praying and be sung to by aunt mary dimes. in that camp there was suffering. these are refugees. these are people running away and they need assistance. an african-american woman born enslaved in virginia, bought her freedom out in st. louis as she began working as a seamstress. not only bought her freedom but her son s freedom. she would come to washington from baltimore actually from st. louis to baltimore, then to washington and become a seamstress to the politicians wives. jeff davis wife. he was her seamstress. she would become mary todd lincoln s seamstress. and she had the ear of the first lady. and she would ask the first lady to donate to her organization that she established in 1862 called the contraband relief society and her contraband relief society would attend to the needs of those in the camps here in washington. ....

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