{"id":1071,"date":"2010-12-13T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:58:13","slug":"james-monroe-trotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/13\/james-monroe-trotter\/","title":{"rendered":"1865 (Fighting for Liberty) James Monroe Trotter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Monroe Trotter<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nSeveral letters that James Trotter wrote while serving in the 55th Massachusetts are in Noah Andre Trudeau’s Voices of the 55th: Letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865<\/em> (1996). In addition, editor Richard M. Reid cites Trotter several times in\u00a0Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts<\/em><\/a> (2010) – for example, see\u00a0page 33<\/a> and\u00a0page 37<\/a>. After the Civil War, Trotter published\u00a0Music and Some Highly Musical People<\/em><\/a> in 1886. As for primary sources on James’ son, Boston University has a collection of William Monroe Trotter’s papers<\/a> that contain material\u00a0about William’s involvement with organizations like the National Equal Rights League, the NAACP, and the Pullmans Association.\u00a0In addition, the W. E. B. Du Bois papers<\/a> at the University of Massachusetts includes correspondence with William Trotter. For example, in one letter<\/a> William invited Du Bois to deliver a speech in Boston about Reconstruction.\u00a0Important secondary sources include Stephen B. Fox’s The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter<\/em> (1970), Charles W. Puttkammer and Ruth Worthy’s “William Monroe Trotter, 1872-1934,” Journal of Negro History<\/em> 43 (1958): 298-316, and Robert Stevenson’s “America’s First Black Music Historian,” Journal of the American Musicological Society<\/em> 26 (1973): 383-404. You can also read James Trotter’s profile at the Ohio History Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nTrotter was wounded on November 30, 1864 during the Battle of Honey Hill<\/a>, which took place near Ridgeland in Jasper County, South Carolina. This battle was part of General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea. In Boston you can find historical markers for the James Monroe Trotter House<\/a> (68 Neponset Avenue) and the William Monroe Trotter House<\/a> (97 Sawyer Avenue).<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nHouse Divided has an image of James Trotter<\/a> as well as a 1915 image of his son William Monroe Trotter<\/a>. In addition, the Burt Green Wilder Collection<\/a> at Cornell University has a photograph<\/a> of James Trotter in uniform. A 1922 photograph<\/a> of William Trotter is online at the NYPL Digital Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources Several letters that James Trotter wrote while serving in the 55th Massachusetts are in Noah Andre Trudeau’s Voices of the 55th: Letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 (1996). In addition, editor Richard M. Reid cites Trotter several times in\u00a0Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8651,3974],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighting-for-liberty","category-terrible-war-1861-1865","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}