J.M. Vincent

This telegram, dated May 11, 1863, is from J.M. Vincent in Washington, D.C. to Kansas Gov. Thomas Carney. Vincent denies Carney’s request for authority to raise a Home Guard, and informs him that U.S. Secretary of War E.M. Stanton “does not wish to raise more negro regiments at present.”

May 11, 1863

African Americans
Kansas military units
Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas

J.M. Vincent
Thomas Carney

Telegram

Kansas Historical Society

Stevens, T.C., Folder 1: Correspondence 1861-1863, Item 17

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