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William H. Robinson, b. 1848
From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery.
Eau Clair, Wis.: James H. Tifft, 1913.

W. H. ROBINSON, a captured colored servant, taking the oath of allegiance, dressed in a Rebel General's uniform, before General Thomas. This was but one of the Union soldiers' jokes played on us.

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