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HOMER A. COOKE MILITARY RECORDS, #3532, 1863

Records of Cooke, a U.S. army quartermaster in the New Bern, North Carolina, area, including financial and personal records, accounts of garrison equipage, and records of quartermaster's stores. Many of the personnel were former slaves, then called "contrabands," hired as laborers and serving in the 2d U.S. Colored Calvary.