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Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent witches of east end being raised by a strongIn 1864 the Philadelphia Press commissioned Thomas Morris Chester, son of an ex slave to cover the activities of black troops on the Virginia front. The only black correspondent for a major daily during the Civil War, Chester covered the crucial final year of the war around Richmond. His dispatches constitute the most sustained and extensive first hand account of black soldiers in existence. As the war came to a close, Chester richly described the