1863 illus Civil War newspaper NEGR0 CHAPLAIN 1st Colored Regiment REV HM TURNER

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1863 illus Civil War newspaper NEGR0 CHAPLAIN 1st Colored Regiment REV HM TURNER
1863 illustrated Civil War newspaper with portrait & biog of
REVEREND H M TURNER
, theNEGR0 CHAPLAIN of the 1st Colored Regiment
- inv # 7D-236
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL illustrated Civil War NEWSPAPER,
Harper's Weekly
(NY, NY) dated Dec 12, 1863. This original illustrated Civil War newspaper contains a prominent 6" x 5" portrait and biography of the
REVEREND H M TURNER, the NEGR0 chaplain of the FIRST UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT
.
Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 – May 8, 1915) was an African-American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he was a pioneer in Georgia in planting new A.M.E. congregations among African Americans there. Born free in South Carolina, Turner learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. He joined the AME Church in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1858, where he became a minister. Founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 19th century, the A.M.E. Church was the first independent black denomination in the United States. Later Turner had pastorates in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
In 1863 during the American Civil War, Turner was appointed as the first black chaplain in the United States Colored Troops. Afterward, he was appointed to the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia. He settled in Macon and was elected to the state legislature in 1868 during the Reconstruction era. An A.M.E. missionary, he also planted many AME churches in Georgia after the war. In 1880 he was elected as the first Southern bishop of the AME Church, after a fierce battle within the denomination because of its Northern roots.
Angered by the Democrats' regaining power and instituting Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth century South, Turner began to support black nationalism and emigration of blacks to the African continent. This movement had started before the Civil War under the American Colonization Society. Turner was the chief figure to do so in the late nineteenth century.
During the American Civil War, Turner organized one of the first regiments of black troops (Company B of the First United States Colored Troops), and was appointed as its chaplain. Turner urged both free-born blacks and "contrabands" (enslaved people who had escaped slavery and had their status classified as unreturnable because their former master's were engaged in war against the government of the United States) to enlist. Turner regularly preached to the men while they trained and reminded them that the "destiny of their race depended on their loyalty and courage". The regiment often marched to Turner's church to hear his patriotic speeches. In July 1863, the regiment had completed its formation and was preparing to leave for war. In November of that year, Turner received his commission as chaplain, becoming the only black officer in the 1st USCT.
Turner discovered that the duties of a Union army chaplain in the Civil War were not well defined. Before the war, chaplains taught school at army posts. During the war, the duties expanded to include holding worship services and prayer meetings, visiting the sick and wounded in hospitals, and burying the dead. Each chaplain had to work out his role in his regiment, based on the expectations of the men in his care and his own talents. For Turner, this appointment enabled him to grow in influence among African Americans.
Turner was a chaplain for two years. Shortly after reporting for duty, he caught smallpox and spent months in the hospital recovering. He returned to his company in May 1864, just before they participated in its first armed conflict, the Battle of Wilson's Wharf on the James River. From May through December, his unit participated in the fighting around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia. At the end of the year, they fought in the massive amphibious attack against Fort Fisher.
Turner spent the spring of 1865 with his men as they joined Sherman's march through North Carolina. When the fighting ended, he was sent to Roanoke Island to help supervise a large settlement of freed slaves. Discharged in September, Turner was commissioned as chaplain of a different African-American regiment, which was assigned to the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia. Shortly after arriving there, he resigned and left the army. He turned his attention to politics, civil rights, black nationalism, and evangelizing for the A.M.E. Church among Southern freedmen.
Turner became a politician during the Reconstruction era, being elected to state government; a powerful churchman, and a national race leader. While serving in the army, Turner refined his thinking about the African race and its future. He gained wider attention nationally by two activities related to the war. First, he wrote numerous letters from the battlefield to newspapers that were published, attracting many readers and admirers in the North. These were his base for a lifetime of journalism. Second, in the first months after the war ended, he used his position as army chaplain to attract emancipated freedmen into the A.M.E. Church. Most former slaves had formerly belonged to white dominated churches, and the expansion of the AME Church in the South strongly influenced African-American life. Turner was the first of the 14 black chaplains to be appointed during the war. Both the A.M.E. Church and the A.M.E. Zion Church, based in New York, also had numerous missionaries appealing to freedmen in the South.
After the war, Turner was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to work with the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia during Reconstruction. White clergy from the North and former military officers also led some Freedmen's Bureau operations.
The newspaper usually contained 8 pages of text and 8 pages of gorgeous woodcut engravings, highly prized today for their  detailed contemporary illustrations of events and places. The engravings are generally in 3 sizes: double page (DP - 21" X 16"), Full page (FP- 16" x 11") , and half page (HP- 10" x 8").
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