- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Certificate of enlistment for John Lenoir in the U.S. Colored Troops
- Date of Original:
- 1861/1865
1850/1877 - Subject:
- United States. Colored Troops
Slaves--Tennessee--Roane County
Lenoir family
Antislavery movements--United States
African Americans
War
Civil rights - People:
- Lenoir, John
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Knox County, 35.99322, -83.93709
United States, Tennessee, Roane County, 35.84786, -84.52324 - Medium:
- certificates
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- John Lenoir was a slave of Lenoir and Brothers who were residents of Roane County. In 1864 Lenoir and Brothers signed this document to "voluntarily offer his (or her) into the service of the United States...for the period of three years or during the war."
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A7268
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Digital Collection: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee: A Grassroots Approach to Volunteer Voices
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
