#157/Genesis 22

ABRAHAM IS TESTED!

 BY APOSTLE JANICE L. WILLIAMS 

WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY,  

MAY 18TH-25TH to wednesday june 1st-8TH, 2016



SCRIPTURES PRINTED IN RED ARE WORDS SPOKEN

BY JESUS

  



MONDAY, MAY 3OTH, 2016

AND 

SOME

Nick Biddle of Pottsville was a long-time member of the local militia. His unit was mobilized into the First Defenders and sent to Washington to guard the capital. On April 18, 1861, while marching through Baltimore, his unit was attacked by a mob throwing rocks and bricks, and Biddle suffered a severe head wound. The above photograph of the elderly Biddle was sold at the Great Central Fair in June, 1864.

 1863 Philadelphia, PA

 ^In the face of the impending Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in June of 1863, the young African American educator and activist Octavius Catto worked to organize a black regiment for defense of the state. When they arrived in Harrisburg they were turned back. State authorities were not yet ready or willing to accept black soldiers. This rallying cry is signed by forty-five Philadelphia African American leaders – clergymen, educators, businessmen – joined by Frederick Douglass, touring the north encouraging African American enlistment.

^On June 22nd the Adjutant-General of the Army authorized the recruitment of “three Regiments of Infantry, to be composed of colored men.” On July 6 a mass meeting of African Americans ratified the text of this dramatic broadside, printed on three joined sheets. Frederick Douglass, still busy in town, joined fifty-three local leaders in signing the call to arms.

^Duval & Sons, United States Soldiers at Camp William Penn.

Chromolithograph (Philadelphia, 1864).

Local African American regiments trained at Camp William Penn, in Cheltenham Township, just north of the city.

Shown directly above, are men of Company G of the 25th Regiment United States Colored Troops, one of a dozen African American regiments that trained there.

New York State 

Boston, Massachusetts

General Order No. 329: Protection of Slaves

 ^The document directly above^,

is a recruiting poster directed at black men during the Civil War.

It refers to efforts by the Lincoln administration to provide equal pay for black soldiers and equal protection for black POWs.

General Order No. 329

Issued by the War Department on 
October 3, 1863,

was issued to facilitate recruiting in the states of Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

It stated that if a slave was accepted for recruitment they were entitled to compensation for their service and labor but not to exceed more than three hundred dollars.

This issued General Order shows that many slaves would escape their owners to become a part of the United States Colored Troops {USCT} in order to become free from slavery and their owners. 

 The original poster is located in the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's–1917, Record Group 94Kentucky 1864 

 

Camp Nelson, 12th Regiment, USCT Recruitment poster, 1864.

Camp Nelson was the third largest recruiting and training camp for African Americans in the United States in which the camp provided the Union Army with over 10,000 troops.

Many African American men brought their families to Camp Nelson to seek refuge and it was here where they finally gained their freedom.

With this gained freedom the camp started to put out recruitment posters specifically to attract African American Troops. 

The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American ("colored") soldiers.

First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union Army. The men of the USCT were the forerunners of the well-known Buffalo Soldiers, who fought in the Indian Wars later in the nineteenth century and received their nickname in the American West.  

^USCT Recruiting Poster

(Library of Congress)



^Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments,

Freedom to the Slave.

Colored lithograph.

(Philadelphia, 1863 or 1864). 

The reverse of this dramatic illustration is a recruiting poster. From its reference to emancipation, and the phrase urging “colored men” to come “to the nearest United States Camp,” (rather than any specific camp) suggests this handbill may have been circulated by Union troops in the South.

UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS {USCT}

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!!!

2016 

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