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Through little known information about the New Bern Smallpox Contraband Hospital, we know it was founded January of 1864 in the middle of the Civil War. The term contraband comes from when Union General Benjamin Butler refused to capture the salves Shepard Mallory, Frank Barker, and James Townsend and send them back to their masters. This was when the term contraband was meant to refer to slaves. Through the use of the term contraband this defined the slaves as property so they could not be returned back to their masters. Not long after the Union’s occupation of New Bern there was the spread of Smallpox and Yellow Fever. When servants and captured slaves began to contract Smallpox Vincent Colyer requested General Burnside to create a hospital to take care and vaccinate the “contraband”. This led to the creation of the Contraband Smallpox Hospital of New Bern.
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43567
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After the civil war majority of the fire departments had dissolved in New Bern. This caused an issue because the city of New Bern still needed fire protection. Some of the few fire companies that were around was the Holden Hook & Ladder Company and the New Bern Steam Engine No. 1. These companies were helped by the union soldiers that stayed behind or were returning home to New Bern. At the same time confederate soldiers were returning to the area and they started the Atlantic Fire Company back up which was a rival to the existing fire companies. Around the same time the African American citizens of New Bern come together to help create the Harland Fire Company No.1 which was founded by Edward J. Richardson, henry H. Simmons, and John R. Good. The Harland Fire Company No. 1 consisted of seventy-five members and John R. Good was the foreman of the company.
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