Collection of SIX Manuscript WAR DATE Letters from Gen. John P. Hawkins, Commander of US Colored Troops; From the Collection of Thomas Truxton Moebs, author of "Black soldiers - Black sailors - Black ink : research guide on African-Americans in U.S. military history, 1526-1900"
Goodrich's Landing, LA: Original, 1863-64. Original Letters. Important collection of six war-date letters written by Union Brigadier General John Parker Hawkins while in command of Colored Troops at Goodrich's Landing, LA. Goodrich's Landing was the name for the cotton plantation owned by Henry Goodrich that was siezed by Union troops..... More