Freedmen & Union Refugees of Mississippi Valley Broadside African American 1864

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Freedman and Union refugees department of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (1864). A very rare document relating to efforts to help recently Freed African Americans in the Mississippi Valley. (13 1/2" x 6 1/4") An important piece for the collector of Slavery related documents of post Emancipation Proclamation period during the Civil War."The object of this special department is to Provied means for supporting the ones of those large numbers of persons who in the military measures of the government have made free but who are for the present homeless and destitute and for the union people whom the rebellion has driven from their homes. Are armies are largely reinforced by enlistments from among the Freedman, but considerable numbers of the men who offer them self or rejected by the medical examiners as physically unfit for the service and very large number of women and children a left without any adequate provision. The policy of the government in the treatment of those people is inhumane. Officers are pointed to have supervision of the camps and places in which they are gathered; encouragement is rendered to all who are able to find employment as servants or laborers; and in the south, and extensive system of employing them on the "abandon plantations" has been augurated. It is not to be exposed that all these arrangements can be work so perfectly that there will not be much suffering and destitution to be relieved by voluntary charity. So our Western Sanitary Commission have found; and, with characteristic humidity they have promptly undertaken this necessary work. They have agencies already established, through which they have so been officially ministered to the soldiers; they have the confidence of the military authority; they have full knowledge of the roots of localities and the most economical an expeditious methods of conveyance and disbursement; they are men of tried and approved fidelity, humanity, and wisdom. It is difficult to see how the humane persons who desire to contribute to the relief and improvement of the freed people can entrust their gifts to a safer or better management. It should be understood that the measures supervised by the western sanitary commission, embrace not simply the supply of the present bottle he wants of these people, but the maintain its schools, the encouragement and assistance which they so much need to decent and virtuous family arrangements and whatever is practicable that tends to their advancement in civilization, and in fitness for the enjoyment of liberty, with the advantage to themselves and safety to the community. For the union refugees it would seem that know whether plea can be needed, then the simple statement that they have been deprived of all their property, and been driven from their homes, simply because they would not be Rebels. We have all had to make sacrifices in this war for the union but what possible sacrifices can we have made this homes remain to us which deserved to be mentioned in comparison with those which I've fallen to the lot of these impoverished and homeless union refugees. It was a happy suggestion to the executive committee of the Mississippi Valley sanitary fair, to institute a department through which provision which we all love to make for the second one good of the Republic, and I was properly did the executive committee unanimously adopt the suggestion. The special committee having charge of this department have issued a circular which we publish below and respectfully in earnestly request the publishers of papers friendly to these objects to copy the circular and so much of this appeal may be convenient and to commend there Enterprises to the favorable consideration of their readers it should be noticed that this is so far is known the only one of the great sanitary affairs which is instituted a department of its kind. Those therefore you have opportunity to contribute to the relief of soldiers were there other fares may find the available channel of their charities toward Friedman and union refugees. We earnestly entre... read more

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