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Robert W. Gourdine

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Title:
Robert W. Gourdine
Collection:
Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
Creator:
Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925
ID Number:
RMC2009_0409
Catalog Record:
2083915
Collection Number:
14-26-95
File Name:
RMC2009_0409.tif
Work Type:
black-and-white photograph on card
photographs
Subject:
United States --History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --African Americans.
Description:
…I was attracted by his neatness and intelligence and took him as a servant. ...He was traind and educated by the mother of my first wife, and became station-master on the Fitchburg RR and later porter with Messrs. Hewins and Hollis...
Bibliography:
Note on back: In the spring of 1865, when the 55th Mass. Inf'y was on an expedition in the interior of South Carolina, with others he left the plantation of his master (who was also his father) and joind us…
Cite As:
Burt Green Wilder papers, #14-26-95. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collecting Program:
University Archives
Archival Collection:
Burt Green Wilder papers
Box:
19
Format:
Image
Rights:
Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.

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