Men W\io
war
of
1861-'65.
take commands
by
brother
officers
and at the mess table
;
and
victory.
scrutiny of all who
followed
you,
giving
men
of
the
here
country
in
crushing
the
great
Kebellion
of
1861-'65,
gathered
around
a
camp-fire.
The
white
and
the
colored
American
sabred
face,
the
bullet-scarred
body
of
a part.
in
obedience
thoroughly
done.
The
public
libraries
New
libraries
of
me.
It
of
our
forefathers
should
been able
part
in
to
which ascribe
to thegenerals
rious. The
the
relish for
Trotter,
James D.
account
of
Soldiers—
of
1864
—
Organization
of
the
Fight
Bridge
—
Charge
The
Phalanx
acquiring
a
Reputation
Libby
Prison
—The
Massacre
on
the
Black
Soldiers
—
Troops
from
Capture
of
517
made
517
APPENDIX.
the
American
soldiers
of
the
Revo-
their blood ;
in the
American army, a large
However, enough has
show that they
obvious
to
the
entrance
to
The sincerity with
of
your
the
Borough
account
of
the
committee
white man
at that
passed forbidding
only through
and of whom
from
in tribal
courage,
produced
a
resignation
States, the negro,
at
the
bat-
defending their
was
sentinel
at
the
com-
first
to
disarm
and
and
weap-
ons
of
every
emotion,
rid of
town
took
place.
of
Caldwell;
both
being
strangers
in
the
file of coaches
to
the
Middle
Burying
deposited in one grave ;
'Long
as
fame extend
Where
commemorated in Bos-
substituted
a
general
celebration.
were
was at
;
soldiers
of
the
Revolution."
It
was
not
the
those who,
in pre-
ceding wars,
British
Em-
referring
to
the
March,
1770.
The
New
England.
phase upon their
of every
the
the
persons
such a right has arisen
from some compact between the parties, in which
it has been explicitly
was the
orator on
her
guiltless
sons.
Let
this
every
jubilee in
the grim
of
March,
1770,
too
tender
of
the
lives
necks? But I must not too
severely
that
magnificence
of
from
Americans
despised
a
pol-
troon's
brains
of our country. We
dared
to
insult
us,
that
a
Robertson,
or
before
 
seat, yet
be assured,
j'our
savage
bos-
that they
could fall
of the
gallant Major
agonized son
received him
in his
sented
to
to the
event,
of
the
brave
of Col.
Frye's regiment,
this said
the
ground
an
Framingham
as
he
was
army. Salem
now
the
State
muster
field.
He
removed
to
Lei-
abode
he
died."
battle of Bunker
number
of
were
pierced
with
the
fam-
ily
for
several
years.
At
one
time
he
they
in
the
army,
negroes
who
had
being
of age. As
the best that can engage men of courage and principle
to
take
up
such will
not an
the follow-
were many offi-
and
who
protested
account of
color. So
feeling
I
have
presumed
to
depart
from
letter
the
following
note:
committee from
Congress in
camp, it
who
had
served
faithfully
The
the army by order
the
with in the
the ranks very
men for fatigue;
; but there
here would
all
conflicts
as
body-ser-
vant,
hostler
were excluded from
in conference,
of
the opposition
was too
strong to
carry the
leading
to
order
arms
against
attempt
to
restrain
them
by
force
attempting
to
join
prevent this threatening
labor, or take arms in
the
de-
once
defeating our
that
public
in the North
the
mis-interpretations
of
the
declarations
of
war.
the
Southern
States
in
re-enlist-
had
represented
the
planters
as
ambitious,
privately, that,
of
the
Mother
Country
in fact,
of
men-of-war
and
more
armed
negroes
and
Royal
troops,
to
the
mouth
England,
where
he
remained.
possessions
in
ada,
Lord
a
strong
that
two
companies
of
our
militia
Hutching's,
with
another,
found
/Ship
amongst
them,
June
26,
1776.
nant one,
seen in
crushed, if
it takes
get
size,
some
to do it without."
the other
'
State troops
formed into a
small dis-
the countersign
; but amused
the Colonel,
having arrived un-
were
at
the
door
of
his
man,
named
Prince,
instantly
thrust
his
may be
aided in
achieving the
town.
The
grandfather
of
the
historian
Wm.
W
r
ells
Brown,
Simon
the
army
the
under
charge,—completely routing
title
of
him. To the day of his
death, he
which entitled him to
who
knew
him.
A
few
years
ago
with the
was
compelled
to
receive,
more
and he sank to rise no
more,
till
stand on
the battle-field
returned
to
his
vice
rendered
by
Armistead.
of
those
had been fighting under the smart of defeats, with an
occasional
at Great
Bridge, and
Patrick Henry
too resolved
organized
meetings;
the
measure for arming
;
only
reached
killed"
Now
and
entirely
however,
by
white
officers,
men
of
high
most
sanguine
expectations
As the struggle proceeded,
again prominent in
signed
by
any
person
authorized
to
Surveyor-General,
shall,
people
are
defence of the
refused
will
are
looked
upon
Revolution, these
and Champlain,
proportion,
with
government, authorizing
thousand
free
people
of
color.
Sir,
country from the inroads
as soldiers
in the
attached
to
the
Northern
army."
energy
and
daring
highly
coloring
the
picture
and I may
troops
could select
battal-
will
not
render
slavery
ideas
that
value
negro
troops
was
project ; for the
my utmost efforts for carrying
the
smallest
gloomily
practice of
who
within these Lines,
permission
is
men
it,
became
the
1780,
wrote
to
Joseph
Jones
at
soldiers?
It
would
certainly
be
of
liberty
either
Never
to be immedi-
that
States,
he
and Assembly;
of
a
triple-
headed
monster,
in
were
given me
exceeded five
among whom were several of the most
distinguished officers. The American
which more
than three-fourths
of Gen.
fire; the desertion of the second
Maryland regiment, and that
ap-
pear
of the enemy."
"making
a
last
effort"
in
Georgia.
Gen.
Washington
the failure of your
Cornwallis' surrender
battles
fought
that
the
of
doubtless
the gallant
May,
replied,
a hundred years old to-day.'
"His
acknowledged to be
the historians of
family of
John Hutchins.
He enlisted
at the battles
loved
affectionately."
loved
"His
discharge,"
says
his Lordship's
ships,
oppo-
sition
as
strong
as
following
1780,
when
he
nal
were not
all that
they
rendered
active
Revolution
occasions,
Simon
Lee*
was
treated,
is
true.
conflict,
corps, raised within
was
a
slave
in
Virginia,
of the Revolution. Although honorably dis-
charged,
resenting to
labors.
"Beit
of such enlistment,
deemed
free,
in
the
passage
of
this
been
represented
to
and for
theme.
And
I
find
no
better
eulogy
to
delivered
in
the
United
them had an opportunity
of
freemen.
their 'You are not
one regards
memorable
Chesapeake,
two former
had "protections
but asserted that
his
escape.
give
they were
in the harbor
At that
time the
proved
convenient
British
captain
men who
Navy.
or
intercourse
with
a
deserter, and dismissed
not
report on the
of her enemy's ports,
plundered in every sea,
On
these
sons of
purchased
might lead
nation,
and
confidently
trusting
that
the
man
the
squadron
then
he gained
t
pleased
your
by
any
seamen
board of
vol.
i.
pp.
186,
187.
of
1812,"
given
privateers,*
of
man
the deck, and
Halifax
as
a
because they
would then
the
war
the
advantages
enjoyed
you
will
be
paid the same bounty, in money and lands, now received
by
the
sixty acres of land.
corps,
be
ex.
posed
to
pendent battalion or regiment,
on
the
subject
of
this
address.
negroes
reached
gloom and
legislature
looking
to
the
and
he
regi-
ments
a
deem
officers
ized
to
commission,
by
and
at
shall
not
thenceforward
be
fairly
begun;
at
free
negroes
In
should enlist with
negroes,
reviewed the troops
under his command
Life
do
justice
to
collected
could
endure
hunger
and
thirst,
hopes.
which impels
valor,
as
your
General
now
noblest
reward."
Niles's
Register,
vol.
vii.
pp.
345,
346.
Thus
in
and
only taxed
the energies
great
save the city,
formed
lost
Jack-
son's
army
on
soldier friend,
I find
Andrew Jackson,
8
reads
thus:
formed
Major Savary, second
"
number
of
"Thus were over four hundred 'men of color' in
that battle. When
3600,
numbers in the country warranted.
"
'men of
glorious appeal to
color
of
color
of
thanks
of
of the
celebrating,
and
who,
by
their
good
conduct
in
presence
of
page of the historian.
our homes
universal
opinion
of
our
and gratification
place in the
modesty
1828,
be-
fore
that
body
"Slaves
or
them,
—as
fine
martial
looking
men
as
in
the
last
and
honor
to
themselves."
As
in
the
the States,
a prejudice,
that showed
itself in
color.
The
of
the
European
emi-
grants
to
with
the
Indian
will
wanting in
spirit, yet
the
6
(03)
in
which
to
be
never been known.
would stigmatize
a man,
who should
content himself
beings; but their
usion
In
the
;
childhood.
While
the
of
his
could
not
"
direct
descent
the negro race is yet
to come."
acquire glory, the record
furnishes abundant
of the
more
war was
not one
and
forgotten
idea
beginning
as
in
the
South
to
the
world
of
that
could be written in
enemy;
shocks
although instigated
slaves.
Island,
aspect, and
such a war an
power
of
war
meaning
to
turning
regu-
with
w
r
at the
6,000,000,
and,
fill
up
 
by
ures
is
a
war
of the
of the
is
a
zealously
and
determine
and
loyalty.
passed a Congressional
it. There are now
defending and
of
millions of
black men
cornfield
lamentable lack
history
as commanders.
Under both
unstinted praise."
Democrats
present
soldiers. Let
my enemies
a
social
be as
the result. Gen-
enlist-
com-
pany
and
regiments
enemy. Two
lina;
traveling
from
city of
a
duct
of
8th of July
for national existence,
Anthony in the chair.)
soil
of Kentucky and
Andrew
field,
in back
delude
and
sections. Mr. Davis
the
and
"I deny,"
1812,
* * *
thousand
slaves
as are
this
for-
eign
despotism,
we
may
not
some
of
them
Mr.
the Senate
"That all
just
compensation,
not
corps of
ally
estimated
at
of
officers
upon
individual
members,
than
the
organization, instruction
that the
Interested
as
other
men?
We
may
properly
render.
conduct
Officers
and
of the service in
support of
the Government.
and men, and the
of non-commissioned
inspection
should
be
made
of
the
you
will
therefore
makearrangements
immediately
to
perform
that
service.
the
military
the
military
condition
this
De-
partment,
the
received,
1 Captain, 1 First Lieutenant, 1 Second Lieutenant, 1 First
Sergeant, 4
at
infantry.
by
law
II.
;
and Fourth Regiments
Fourth
was so
had
received
in respect
capacity to the Government.
in
Third. The
understood
co-operation of
are
department, letters of
the
utmost
extent
to
which
they
can
be
and
Em-
the enlistment
education
of
to be
as
the
crime.
colored
sol-
charged
a
soldier's
enlistment
as
the
a
regiment,
regiment
—
;
Government was changed
among
colored
Lt. Colonel
Carolina
Volunteers
of
of
Massachusetts,
on
February
21,
1863,
numbering
twenty-five
No.
143.
as
Adjutant General.
to
given
to
persons
who
given
regiment.
V.—The reports of Boards will specify the grade of commission for
which each
afterwards
consolidated
in
will
appointing
non-com-
 
State,
and
to
serve
for
83,
Mustering
Regula-
tions.
The
recruitment
will
be
of
the
THOMAS
M.
VINCENT,
had
arranged
to
of
the
Regulations
to
of
the Corps d'Afrique of all
able
bodied
men
from
occupied
by
70, from
these Head-
observance
of
existing
in
the
Field,
By
G.
At the
North where
sion
to
the
composed entirely
which several
knowledgeof the Brig.
duty,
troops. Such use of these
details
is
unauthorized
and
improper,
to the
allies,
but
when
a
tion
at
posts a little
to
the
concert,
which
forbidding
and
teams
and
from their chief,
had little reason
visiting each plantation
under
charge
of
an
officer,
with strange experiences.
Beoruits were taken
laborer
in
and march away
speechless
a
horse and
head toward
run
away,
and
what
with them
a
another within
of August,
were deducted on
other volunteers;
but the
order was
generally recognized,
about the cities,
Govern-
was
raised
against
them,
were
suffering
the North,
people
of
the
country,
at
severely criticised
—
was taken
the
Thirty-
Massachusetts, the two
the
impassable
States did
better still. All
brigade, g;ave
the order
to re-
the
order,
or
hearing
commanding the Thirty-Third
Hundred
color-bearers of
the Thirty-Third
a
ter
winning.
New York
and
Massachusetts,
both, except
New Year's
Day. Every one of those killed in this action from these
two
recoiled
died
defrauded
by
pay.
colored
my only excuse for
length
ruled
that
colored soldiers shall be paid the full pay of soldiers from
date
of
of
are allowed
equal
pay
Senate,
as
he
class is made first
Yet it is
no doubt in
Stevens.
the
are allowed
faith
is bound
wives and
signed
been
the
arrears
of
pay
more than that.
agents
from
around
the
himself
It is
the service
(100)
paid as bounty, shall
be paid if the
less
mustered into the
Recruiting of the district wherein the
recruit was
the quota
Provost
Marshal,
contravention
by not
and
if
Schooner, or other vessel, the
steamboat or
for the use of the destitute
negroes supported by the
Official : WM. M.
of
unclaimed bounties,
large sums of the
sev-
enty-eight
thousand,
by
Washington
issued
its
mandate
for
their
enlistment
and
world.
In
view
the Fort Pillow
Pillow massacre.
lowing
sketches
from
his
give an
and
are
—
this
Sam. General
the
vast
throngs
of
sense,
and
by the
South,
from
the
President,
It was
all the other
one-half
South
Carolina
was
spared.'
across the
vast fatigue
duties in
seen from
necessary
orders
for
all
men he
If
his
his
own
"But now,
trivial—
difficulty.
Where
'
refusal.
Before
the
D.
prejudice against
negro troops—
gallantry and
good conduct
sent
for,
the pur-
of
his
—
scores of
all
Port Royal
Admiral DuPont
and General
out from an
little apparent
and
as
Hunter
and
every
at-
very chance
before the
country, and
wore,
the
moral
history
of
archives
under
the
care
of
Gen.
steamer
of heaven's
Head who were
to
T
sentatives June
9, 1862,
on motion
in
this
department.
so
to-morrow
morniiiT.
to call for. But, in view of the
near
termination
and the wide-spread interest
of fuller and more
of
'fugitive slaves'
has been, or is being, organized in this department. There is, however,
a
unhappy
composing
their late owners, that
acquire
answer that the instructions given to
Brig.-Gen.
ploy
pression
or the nature
our most
masters who have
over ramparts, or
in the
extreme distance.
In the
issue of
these persons
with shovels,
spades, and
included
any particular
a
mous
opinion
my hope
Republicans
appeared
—
of it the
Clerk be now
loses his
ure
upon
Republican, in par-
gorilla who,
of the brutish
special duty
War
Department
connivance with
the theory of our
ever known,
the
arms
Brigandage.
Your
in league, has its best comment in
the
sympathy
extended
to
in
throwing
war material nearly
—
associates in this
whole government of
through
what
instrumentalities
greatest
though
gifted friend
repression of such eccen-
dillo,
rather
than
as
*
seen the seeds of this conspiracy planted in
the
rank
soil
of
of a
and
to
look
our ordinary eyesight
through the
rose-colored glasses
—
officers
and although
which soldiers
have trained
which
will
only
recall
your
name
to
with seventeen
which
prompted
the
assertion of his faith, against all odds, I need not now recall.
The
white
men,
Mr.
Davis,
are
to-day
marching
South,
as
they
preached by him,
rebellion as
it deserves,
Gen.
able-bodied
blacks,
force, and
their
might fall, was
is
already
familiar.
General
was
down
object seemed
with Gen.
our army,
while only
service
in
the same,—no newspaper
proper
"rea-
—
the enemy,
and the
next
executed
—as
'hav-
who
our ex-orderly,
and
the
officers
of
that,
shame
The right to be kil't
I'll divide
wid him,
boys,
had
reply
to
it
would
see, man proposes, but providence orders otherwise. "When the Clerk
announced
he
laughter.
Even
mo-
tioned
the
whom he
you,
avail
yourself
at
cumstances
and
second
Lieut. Cols. Bassett
the trust
acquiring even the
parishes,
New York. The
in
drill.
This
rule
of
colored
regiments,
of
which
I
was
President,
in
ton,
300,000
of
them,
is intimately
not sufficiently
these
indispensable
qualifications
we
require
for
it
ought
to
be
in
all
situations,
requires
much
study
no
means
easy.
He
should,
besides,
possess
the requisite
'
of
treasure
and
white as well
doubt, in
by the elite,
such as Col.
New
York
other
men?
as those
•
are
kept
at
the
War
Department
Vick.
As
Edgar
Thezan,
Corpls.
John
G.
Seldon,
Thelesphore
D. J.
Peter Robin,
Lee,
"
regiments,
some
dashed
away
white
regiments
mond,
was Captain in
and
the
navy
of
persons, with
apply to boats
the
lines.
your lines before
they
the
report
of Major Peck, officer of the day, concerning a large number
of
pickets, with bag
here
who have
marriage;
no
shall
receive
by
the
dan-
over which we
ment, being too refractory to be dealt with there in
the face
religion,
and who
occasionally rebelled
flicted now.
no
mere
fancies
their masters,
vindication, clinging
even
more
different
North,
giving
shape
to
suffi-
cient
that
and the
rebellion
republican form
a
positive,
which
the
son, and
abolishing or modifying slavery. But
there is
one principle
that is that
arms
then
That power gives
orders affecting complica-
the
president
for
effecting
a
gradual
the
before
that
place.
sively
of
that
a
give
strin-
gency
to
witnessed the sudden
against
beneficial effects there,
and
for the country at large
than
the
act which renders
have
and forever. Half
the
farthest, full
tection,
standing,
and
contending
repre-
sentative
military
services
that
and leave his plantation
source
of
in
this
department,
the views set
soldier of
president,
with
my
own,
as
upon
the
inference
difficulty."
I
propose
to
raise
location
is
swampy
and
unhealthy,
and
our
men
are
dying
An opportunity now offers of
supplying
the
defflciency
war. I think
proposed in
three
hundred
Africans
organized
test. They
;
of the North,
offer
from
being
accepted.
and privates
the
trees,
you
for the to be
"To Brigadier-General J. \V. Phelps, Camp Parapet."
General
I
it is accepted,
in accordance with
general
regulations.
a
to
the
siderable force
stated.
"When
Lieutenant Weitzel, my
the
negro
mat-
at
this
the
evidence of 'slave-
in
front
of
Arlington
Heights;
are
that
my
so
at
purpose
to
the Louisiana vol-
divert
them,
however
empowered
to
organize
the
are
here,
I
bid
you
good-bye."
Says
Parton
General
Butler,
whose
conduct
every
bearing,
magnanimous."
General
"'The
State
was
com-
plimented
in
General
Orders
for
its
of
their property,
the 15th of February,
be transmitted to
militia
Louisiana are willing
organized
to
from
Packenham and his myrmidons, carrying
the
"Appreciating their motives, relying upon their "well-known loyalty and patriot-
ism,'
other free
authorities of the
United
States,
paid,
equipped,
All
such
persons
are
themselves
at
into the
North
and
their
newspapers
endeavored
to
make
the
sol-
diers
expedition.
Butler
wrote
him
in
reply
correctly and
obediently to
opin-
ion,
these
free
men,
you
should
decline
the
command,
especially
that is done, and you have no longer
to fear
your safety from
armed opposition to the authority of the United States shall
cease
in
the
commanding
gen-
upon
them,
consequences
are protecting his wife and his
home against
negroes.
he
was
consequences of
tection, he would give
of
the
army,
other
regiment."
Mississippi river.
nothing
of
supposition was that
the enemy.
reserve
of
them,
Phalanx,
who
saved
a
accepted the
ments,
the
1st
Mississippi
and
partic-
for the
intrenchments;
run
through
my
miserable style of
soldiers
to
you the wounds
I declare
at me
;
Texas,
was
gunboat
by
pointing
sent
fact
connected
with
the
descend
to
negro was
did
any
other
Depart-
ment,
and
United
States'
town. The
cavalry made
emptied the saddles
to halt
however,
five
to
it. They
fell back
act
on
some
of
their
number
killed
in
the
and women.
capture appeared
after
volley
and
had
not
extinguished
their
manhood,
they had
obedient servant,
battery-men attempted to
was
prevented
could
stand
to
be
yell,
such
as
the
Phalanx
only
at
Pascagoula,
General
Banks
of
May
the
federal
forces,
Augur
in
the
center,
and
odds, the
a
mile
through the
obstacles, stepping
and shell.
impossible
for
them
to
ger;
but
it
recovered
and
was
a
fiery
storm
upon
tempest
of
faster
and
faster
the
the
ers,
as
from
all
sides.
; the
pride,
the
with
a
blacks
rushed
forward
and
ele-
vation,
with
a
cause of justice,
and the
streets leading
was
open
order,
waiting
through.
of eight sol-
society, and six
crowd
Second Louisiana
by a large number
civic
and
religious
societies.
"After
moving
Leading
in
assault
the
disarm
the
prejudice
that
at
al-
ready
named,
surely
the
1st
Regiment
for
the
It
engage
circumstances. Many
a
slaughter-
house."
regiments
gallant
2nd
by
even,
Waiting
And
the
Told them their time had come
Told
them
Whether
for
Oh !
to
Department
of
the
On the
realize that
the strug-
black
ar-
tillery-men,
did
good
States
force
longer
selected
was
as
conspicuous
the
dead
lay
thick
had
fought
like
times al-
ready had
the
day
was
lost,
a
dreadful
moment.
ment
of
of
selves
with
the
black
Gathering
up
their
dead
50,
and the territory
policy
of
the
incoming
Republican
that inflamed the South,
Kansas had long
themselves felt
days
after
composed
It
has
227
Kansas Reg-
of
Kan-
sas."
The
service
rendered
by
State.
citizens.
had
the
made by
of Kansas
be mustered
civil
authorities
in
the
demanded
be
"4th.
—A
large
class
who
believed
authorities
by
arresting
and
confining
the
men
of
the
Cap-
tain
first mentioned.
by
a
the
regiment
was ordered
a
foraging
that he
Living-
ston
committed
the
demoniac spirit
of these
rebel fiends
and wounded. Men
bodies
neighborhood,
who,
while
that the
region of
scene
Baxter Springs until the
and
kee Nation.
He communicated
Brigade,
com-
manded
by
Major
Foreman,
making
altogether
a
gal-
alto-
gether
a
force
of
under the
5th of July, 1863.
of
the
by the 29th
and hold the
this
had long tyrannized
"The
loss
killed and
returned
against the confederate
went into winter quarters
river.
The
regiment
1SG4,
when
1864,
sas regiments,
at
a
road. On the 17th he reached the place and suc-
ceeded
and
Camden the
a
advanced cau-
He there-
of
the
2nd,
a
struggle
repulsed and forced them
gallant
Lieuten-
of the enemy.
a
prisoner
the enemy
com-
manded
lines,
to
the
last
With this determination, he fought the enemy's entire force from
10
observation.'
our force
No
sup-
plies
disabled
J. M.
left
Cam-
with 695
miles,
where
I
the
balance
of
to be found
employed.
Iowa
Infan-
try,
commanded
by
Kansas,
Lieut.
Phillips
commanding,
Cavalry,
Lieut.
Ross
commanding,
and
two
mountain
howitzers
Walker
commanding,
cavalry,
1st
'
which
when
a
line
of
the
in
advance,
and
ordered
that
guarding
ascertaining
if
to draw in some forag-
ing parties which had previously been dispatched upon either flank of the
train.
No
response
was
elicited
upon
his
rear
face
tion. Seeing this, I ordered
forward
and
Henderson,
enemy's
line,
force
the silence
of the
From him
command of the rebel
of
musketry
was
opened
gallantry,
but
were
forced
skirmish
many
'In the meantime
Colored, with one
their
assistance
spared.
'At
front, and
flank,
At
the
than
fantry, and mine replying with vigor and effect.
And thus,
hour, the battle was
officers and
have
tire
this engagement
command
the same
D. M. Sutherland,
and
same month,
Pine Bluffs, Ark. Here
until October 1st,
field
and
known
as
left
"Joseph T.
Troops,
was
October, 1SC3. Most
and composed of active,
able-bodied
young
men.
Immediately
upon
assuming
com-
mand of the regiment, I moved to the front through Missouri, to Fort Smith,
in
Ar-
kansas,
where
the
drill.
Kansas Division of
the Frontier Army
I
moved
south
and
joined
the
Price,
to
the
greater
from
armies
the
Washita
to
the
and
within
a
few
hours
latter
of
which
morning
thousand
splendidly armed
day
which
continued,
more
or
less,
until
darkness
the
north
side,
taking
and two
"These
stood in line of
time.
"During
who
was
enemy.
ready, will-
But
battle was fought.
Division of
deadly effect.
flank, but not a
failed
to
battery of
and
"The charge, though
"A
remained in the
leave
showed
to
those
as
soldiers, to
our command left,
245
ordered
all
along
the
line,
retired from the field, leaving us in full possession, with
a complete
my regi-
about
forty
pieces,
of the
of Price
days been flee-
During the
action in the
as
"In July 1S64, with
the Choctaw
Nation in the Indian Territory, against, or rather in pursuit of
a
brigade
*
"
resigned
my
position
know from heresay, but
that
ford,
a
ra-
a
very
large
train
his
nomi-
nation
to
in
the
The
race,
might
Adjutant-General
the
—
freedman's
blood
a
strong
column
of
our
troops
of the approach
on
the
by
the
guns
of
the
fleet,
which
to
retreat,
succeeded in taking
movement, and
against
Charleston.
Had
they
one
mind,
the
sacrifice
of
far
upon
the
naval
officers.
Warfare
kindles
up
the latent germs of jealousy in the human breast, and the
late
rebellion
tance
mor-
Band hills
width,
guns,
This
was
the
famous
Fort
Wagner;
and,
as
its
rebel
train
such
energy
mortars
of July
the bombardment
commenced. The
land batteries
the
furious
cannonade
Gillmore
grim
walls
to
be
mile and
many
of
the
famous
when we
their heads.
and
night.
a
it beats upon
had
destruction
along
iron, and the whispering
of
missed its aim.
iron
and
lead,
tasted
of
human
blood.
vered
and
as
a
an immense wave.
the walls, bayoneting
men went
ramparts
wound, while
cheering and
the
hu-
man
hand,
dense
masses
of
men
the
the
land
was
had
was not
good. Sand
Federal
to
Little
discov-
Federals
themselves.
The
18th
sand
hills,
at bay
to battle
for her
which
unsurpassed
in
war,
was
an Aga-
movements,
then
monitor
after
fleet
and
had
be
the land side
the plan of relieving
men
retained
any
"The garrison was
Lieutenants H.
Burke,
McEnery's Louisiana Battalion, who
work
Lighthouse Inlet creek around to
the
left
tern bastion
was
to
to occupy
outside of
the light
every
officer
and night, so
sault. The troops
light
guns
not
an
eye-witness
to
conceive
the
frightful
grandeur
smoke,
Wagner
fragments flew
but if the coverings of the
magazines
were
blown
away
garrison into
the assistance
lookiug across
the water
halliards were
the
Confeder-
for its
recovery through
the storm
was
again
replaced
by
intre-
pid
actions,
emulating
at
by
of mortars, per-
know
them into corpses.
found
apparently
concentrated
attempt it; but they would not surrender,
and in
a
sum-
mons
which
was
promptly
responded
to
by
was
selected,
and
the
gallant
Irishman,
at
plunge
twenty wounded
General Strong and
about
grim, hoary
powerful
fleet
of
iron-
his
bayonet
following
newspaper
statement
Through private advice
bombardment of
the city
an
outlet
cotton,
lumber,
etc.,
(2d)
Hamilton's,
Elder's
and
Langdon's.
at
Baldwin
station,
Phalanx
command halted
railroad
shelter
for Lake
crossing
be
some
miles
distant
from
this
either
side.
"Col.
Henry
drove
upon
a
column, while
swamps,
one
to
wildly.
Hampshire and
"The
sacks,
besides
their
cartridge
about
the army
"
 
enemy's enfilading
snowflakes. Driven
was
in
a
firing
at
will
against
which
the
" The slaughter was terrible; the
Phalanx
lost
about
the lapse
as
spirited
as
road, foot-paths
a
few
a
Black
Regiment
nas
seen
General
to
Tallahassee,
and
General
Seymour
will
establish
a
camp
extract to show
how the news
the very
ambulances in which we rode to the ball were ours only
until the wounded
"'General
upon
it conscience
steamer
At
daybreak
on
and
setts
Regiment
Gaorgetown to
Viewing
the
stricken
host.
Cried
'Comrades,
troops
which
General
the
military
performed
bearing
on
the
ques-
negro
troops
done
bo
important and hazardous,
of both white and
an impartial
and carefully
under Are.
to
formed.
"
behavior under
passive than the
they
the
trenches,
where
the
instances
to
many
complaints
them
to
work
with
any
the
ox.
interest is
those
from
the
slave
States?'
of the
[Rep]
j
and
an
emergency
or
free
appears at first sight,
the question in order
ris Island, Sept. 27th,
which furnished fatigue
best
work.
Next
follow
and Third United
to
approach
having
splinter-proof
considered
that
of
casualties
is
astonishingly
small.
"The
camp
at
which
the
fatigue
sea-breeze,
which
was
always
"Average percentage of sick
Morris Island,
on Seabrook
in the operations
on Morris Island.
arrangement, as it made
relieving
each
other
daily.
"The
engineer
officers
that the
African
descent,
political right,
brief
time
one
presided
over
years
before,
Toombs
slaves
in
the
shade
of
Bunker
Hill.
"To-day
1862,
Harrison)
of
Emancipation,
Thus
insult
to
every
man
fit for
man, and that
the nayger,
the Board
but as I had
of colored
abolitionist,
and
at
I think, a lieuten-
on
time
was
threatened
with
an
attack
drill.
Almost
immediately
had
had
some
clerical
prepared, and I and my clerk
took
our
stations
at
a
human
wholly
battle.'
He
instantly
answered,
'many
a
right
handling
to
develope
into
over these
changed relations
was very rare
son
to
complain
a
colored
soldier.
and
it
proclamation
set
regiment united and relieved from
so
much
labor,
in
prepared for efficient field
Mission Ridge, in
February, 1864. During
eral
the Cumberland.
Gen Thomas
with great regularity;
num-
corps,
fully
well clothed.
and
polished,
including white
make sport,
others
mention
officer in
know
how,
the ears of Lorenzo Thomas,
the Adjutant-General
;
would
might
to a
of
a
an
object
lesson
opinion
on
the
subject
of
Corps. He occupied
river.
He
received
us
would
make
might have
to
established in
The men
who went
us
around
the
town.
time
battle-field. No
.same assaults, the
respect which
heroism,
and
I impressed with the
regiment, I
returned to
place on General Howard's
ard next
of
General
"At
Adairsville
a
wounding two
through
"•HEADQUARTERS 4TH ARMY CORPS,
satisfaction, and
more, by
your assiduous
district,
we
should
Southern
force.
My
regiment
formed
on
the
left
of
the
51st
Indiana
Infantry,
under
command
great
battle,
and
a
a rifle ball through
Davis, to look especially after
the
hard marching, in
he
was
unable
to
walk,
you?' 'Two
distance.
Rousseau's
sound of
rumored,
a thousand
dollars for
'
full of glee,
'Nebber, drives us away
"When Forest learned
soldier.
men
on
the
side
of
a
His comrades
"As I
picket line,
victory, for our troops
and stopped
started
southward
and
Oct.
27th
I
Granger, commanding
extended
far
be-
other
regiment
were
stationed
on
right,
and
kept
up
by a
find the
did.
ground,
by
After
unable to
ordered
to
which opened upon
pierced through
soldiers,
who
three
rousing
cheers.
of
our
the
68th
Indiana
was assigned to a
command of
when
I
under
heavy
fire,
and was still
After maintaining
a stubborn
he
hiding
for
their pursuers.
line
at
Nashville,
mood
to
assault
us
me-
morable
must
strike
a
he could
furnish his
the North,
of
his
army
Grant himself started West
the
the
men,
with
very
blankets
three
face of a
laid be-
1864,
I
was
summoned
to
General
Steadman's
headquarters.
plan of bat-
real attack, and
C.
H.
Grosvenor,
see how
to put
General,
good
night.'
left
for the soldiers
at
daybreak.
position,
tracing
ran
our
line.
He
hero of New Orleans,
particular
one
two o'clock
in the
afternoon. But
right
flank,
and
weakening
us
a
severe
Hood had
stubbornly resisted,
We had
together in
each
other
from
lay
side
by.
The
day
that
we had longed to see had come and gone, and
the
sun
went
down
upon
a
record
field,
soon
be-
came
whistled and sang
heard the
to it for my
some two
miles, and
was especially
a
grand
and
terrible
sight
to
see
in the
face of
musketry,
White
and
"
my lines
to re-form,
began deliberately
up
the right
noble army
further resistance
was madness,
scarcely stopping to
and the
at
the
enemy,
lost
to
his
amuse-
ment.
where
pasture
made of
that the
owners bitterness
at his
especially for
those of our men who had lost their shoes the
day
before
their way with
gested
to
the
inexperienced
South,'
but
then
a
light it
of Hood,
and
we
to rest. Distance
to
people
in
America.
CHAPTER
IX.
THE
dashed
for-
captured and
and supplies
confederates had
The
battle
to extricate
were not
this
long
a
in
extreme left
the morn-
cavalry
at
one
of
the
Confederates
operating
of
in our
covered
this
soon shot,
but he
I
that
day.
"When
their
gro
fighting
with
a
hill
to
get
in
battle
so
terrible
as
an
and
in on our right
and rear. Burbridge hurried
back with his victorious
got in Breckenridge's
and
was
took the North
Bentlej-, with
rear.
The
Confederates
North
Carolina."
thus
the Con-
pick-
men
honor
in arms.
considered as soldiers
they, and each
of
delivered
all com-
black flag
time
they
are
encouraged
to
a
general
assassination
as
the
Proclamations
of
commanders and
to
nations shall be,
"Sec.
5.
incited
a
such other
military court
manner and on
mulattoes
who
captured, to be
acted the following order
slaves
shall
were
never
enrolling
fortifications
and
in
trenches,
in
the United
are aiming
at our
as
the
to our
Several
black
soldiers
of
prisoners,
though
an
immediate
exchange
of
all
captured
in
captured
person,
on
account
of
his
color,
and
history
of
the
char-
were
unfortunate
enough
to
escape
death
upon
the
battle-field
and
that
of
Senators,
what
Committee
furnishes
ample
proof
on the
Conduct and
Expenditures of
the War.
committee
received
a
tion of the committee to the condition of returned Union
prisoners, with
War on the first
of
of
those
who
have
survived
a
greater
of
living
skeletons,
; some
of
valuables,
storms;
on
several
occasions,
the
witnesses
•sustain
life
them-
selves
ing that
from
exposure
and
other
in-
stances
of
equally
unprovoked
murder
are
disclosed
cut all the hair from their heads, and make applications
to destroy
bodies of those
and
filthy
with
the
others,
many
who
have
complaining
fortitude,
the
undiminished
patriotism
exhibited
in a
an
army
keep
treatment.
every branch in a most
commendable
condition.
the
expedition
in
the
to
enable
the
as
to
what
the
negro
their
report,
the
testi-
ing
them
to
"Deposition of John Nelson
a
flag
of
truce
as the
on
in
our
rear
until
we
turned
dead colored
restrained. As
This gallant soldier,)?) twenty
the
poor
soldier
cavalry.
sabres were
sides, the
the works on the side near Cold Creek, and
also approached
well
as
I
could
in
surrender,
and
call out that they had surrendered. The rebels would reply, 'G—
d—n you,
The rebels
The cries for
discovered, I would be killed,
I emerged
was
shoot you.'
there was still
it up in
any
hundred and
sixty negroes
killed and
United
States
heavy
artillery,
on the
captain.
just
geants to
the logs,
and set
I
could
tell
they
were
ored
men.
'Question.
Did
you
notice
them
down.
They
out a
buried a
great many
buried
more
secesh
than
I
came
away
again.
'Question.
fight?
'An-
Colonel
Ransom
and
on
our
houses
there?
'Answer.
Yes,
sir;
was
put
done
go
rendered?
Oue
of
before like
their
knees,
when
they
would
shoot
them
down
stick
torches
all
after I
was shot; he was close by me when I was shot.
'Question. Did
he try
down, he
told them
not to
came
around
to
me
it
got the
watch and
about half the chain. He took an old Barlow knife I had in
my
Five
Answer..
Yes,
sir.
'Question.
Will
a
'I have
did
shoot
another
one
said,
saw
one
of
buildings
burned?
'Answer.
Yes,
sir.
While
officers took
were placed
the
authorities prescribed a
change of air,
from
the
West
to
the
Eastern
market
the
made
an
at-
tempt
an abandoned
in each
visits,
only
their
exchange
deprived
per day
whose
Ma-
sonic
or
family
which they might
of
future
along
a
conspiracy.
While
lieved
to
be
Chief
Engineer
of
a
few
days
the
preliminaries
to
exchange
were
completed,
new
was
receiving
a
good
deal
by
one
known
officer quickly
stolen,
enlisted
men)
were
formed
in
two
or
three
met
a
a
few
miles
march
as they.
came
up
he
withdrew
replaced
one would
Now,
morning
dawned
and
stockade
killed
and
and the
"
'
to
sweep
down
the
crowd,
should
an
escape before the
officer
attempted.
The
note
fell
short;
the
minutes
formed in
had
then
been
a
and was being
when
not satisfy
my hunger,
the next
inadequate
potato-peelings from
from four
were
used.
Some,
line
in the
more and
through
the
large
and
twenty
dollars
Confederate
from
starvation.
I
bought
rice
up
while
going
for
water.
Some-
or
we were
experiencing; and
"
'
games of
were
always
per
way,
frequent
colli-
sions,
at Salisbury,
occurred, these
on with
had
dug
a
hole
through
the
brick
wall,
were foiled.
a guard through
to
the
it over
the
Cook
case
and
he
whether any
anticipations
were
not
realized,
for
instead
of
detained in Libby
of
provisions
and
19th,
transportation,
signed
exchanged—
I
did
"
'
of his wounds
ner, the
vindictive or revengeful disposi-
Turner
been
guarded
colored
and
that
they
his
negro troops
stationed in
are
known
to
have
been
assisted
in
the
defence,
but
the
height
of
noon both sides
Forrest,
for
surrender:
have
attempted
to
deny
the
Forrest of his ability
by
your
teaching
of
the
certainty
all
the
son actually occurred, and
true.
has but to
of
the
Confeder-
The confederate
summons
de-
manded
unconditional surrender
the
enfilading
much cut
in command
Second Tennessee
we'll
whip
them
fellows
a double line
waver. In
this terrible
effect of
the Union
fire. The
blazed
was
barked
down the
his
sec-
gency,
a
moments
retire through
column of fours.
in
position and
the latter
house.
"Our
skirmishers
had
steady
on
they
came.
new line
them
back
Phalanx.
mer
spot
where
he
fell.
Several
great
many
battery
horses
were
killed.
The
rout
rapidly
the
bridge,'
he
continues,
'I
extended
points
along
followed,
perhaps,
enernj'
and
possible
to
use
more
retreating enemy
"The ridge
put
them
to
The
confederate
says
now being in advance,
fited Federals were badly scattered
throughout the
country. Forrest,
therefore, threw
side of
vicinity.
A
across
the
were killed and wounded.
deserted
by
their
ones
that
to
Salem
and,
when
this
brig-
ade
came
up,
then
it
repelling
cut it
;
up
to
close
to
him
to
retreat,
thinking
his gun,
and with
his
would-be
master
dead.
"Once
when
butt of his
loaded and
to
being
bayoneted
another;
and,
he
turned
General Sturgis
was severely
followed
up
do,
inasmuch
as
he
is
report that
and
about
six
became jammed
tol in hand,
but
7 a,
was
severe,
we
am
unable
killed and wounded
mud.
no
troops
sir,
fact, very nearly
passed
over
the
ground
on
Owing
to
some
misunder-
standing
LaFayette,
and
assumed
miles of
into park
only make
a few
regulate
his
march
accordingly.
Train
arrived
at
Lamar
about
Salem.
headquarters
at
Widow
Childers,
small party
and
Ripley
roads.
Roads,
"At Ripley it
rain
still
ex-
these
staff were, incidentally, present
on
account
to
de-
roads
expedition. It was
sent
all
own information
have
been
show why
the expedition
might
accrue
to
General
Sherman
presence.
of
the rear brigade with
one of its regiments
preceded
building
bridges,
Sac.,
&c.
"On this morning, I had preceded the head of the infantry
column
considerable
In a
numbered
some
600
drawn
from
at
the
were
reorganizing,
there
ers
The
which formed
line
began
to
give
way
at
various
to
confusion
checking
The
enemy
pressed
heavily
but
to
keep
in
motion
so
Colliersville,
worn
out
and
exhausted
by
purpose
and other causes.
to
offer
seri-
ous
resistance
would
respectfully
refer
was not much
we be
every-
S.
the rebel
General Forrest,
at a
place in
with
while
nego-
tiations
were
the
cartel
But
the
time
arrived
of pay, and
his
experience
at
more
The
Army
of
and
again,
by
its
marching
and
counter-marching,
Old Dominion. Of
not
so
troops,
and
all
city,
down
loyal
tion,
at
the
North,
which
through-
out
regiments
of
as
cause
valor and their
expectant
countenances
of
the
men
and
with
first
plaudits
and
flag
Jr.,
and
Ulysses
Doubleday,
and
constituted
the
3rd
divis-
General
Washington,
D.
C.
"We
The
Bermuda
Hundreds,
town during
been conducted
during
the
conference
boat
was
found
lying
at
the
morning.
We
are
ouacking
at
taken
on the
brought
7th, Generals
Walt-
Butler again
announced the
thou-
sand
which, with proper supplies,
army.
I
Petersburg
to-day, killing
and wounding
days
time
Rich-
General
Grant
intended
to
the
his
forces
Po-
tomac;
General
W.
Butler retaining
ended the
a
felt
for
by our immense wagon
in the rear,
erable
force,
be forced
brothers, they
gave them
make the black
driven
as
not
all
important battle the Pha-
the
garrison
at
at
six
and
to
come
at any cost.
failed, the rebels tried
up,
thereof
was
left
on
the
and
pools
the
soldierly
qualities
in
the
fight
to
were
shooting
lanx brigades
chroni-
cle
the
achievements
comes, they
march with
negroes here who have been slaves, are loyal, to a
man, and on our
quarters. In
understanding of the
privileges
corres-
pondent
the
Southern
Confed-
of the
respects the case.
was
too ignorant or
the federals
have been
more
of
of.
The
arming
the
ancient
world,
fruitful
m
such
histories,
or
furnish.
There
was
paralleled
them
these
ne-
a
story
as
revolt-
Domingo
come, and that
of conven-
clumsy
frames
are
no
the
whites
have
been
sufficiently
even
the
enemy
was
near;
but
the Port
this unequal conflict.
land
Nor
will
the
and touching
prayers, remem-
be wholly
must be
nobly
shown
their
do you
Grant
deter-
mined
to
return
to
his
the
Pha-
use for
the Phalanx
com-
manding
of
a
regiments was
at Wilson's Land-
Hundreds.
This
was
a
a
few
T
rods
they continued
possible,
which
stood
what
was
of
it
was
a
fort,
ditches,
trunks
of
formed an abatis
shooters
and
riflemen
had
a
endurance
the enemy opened
to fire
whole line
down, causing
on
confederates
were
captured.
"The
Phalanx,"
says
the
official
report,
pieces of
troops
enough
which
—at the
sustained the reputable
renown of its
strengthened
by
three
regiments
of
cavalry,
road,
looking
to
toward Bowling Green,
27th
the troops crossed
2nd to the 6th,
to
the
18th
they
of
logs
and
the hill. It
destruction
ment,
intervening
space
between
the
and
preparations
requisitions
for
supplies
after the mine
enemy
they would
of his
a
subordinate,
as
against
the
the night
who were
the morn-
ing of
accordance
morning of the 30th of July. The fuses were fired,
and
"all
eyes
shooters,
deadly
aim.
rived at
the permanent
anything
to
delay.
Gen.
Burnside
w
r
ure already incurred
plosion would take
still
more
did
order
an
for
only
an
enormous
about.
Many
bear upon our troops
heroic
men
continued
to
filled
the
opening
troops
the Phalanx division, loudly
says:
led
through. The
passage was
exertions the
of
the
cess of the day,
The
gal-
charge;
was
A few
possible. The
troops.
The
troops
of
Mahone,
ravine, which
Colonel
D.
A.
Weisiger,
brought
fi'om
the
colored, fought
held
Georgia
Brigade
was
ordered
up
their
attack,
poured
a
volley
into
killing
line occupied
to rein-
force his
Saunders
formed
his
brig-
or retake
they caught
they
must.
With
"In
and
batteries
opened
along
was
to
the
outer
line
and
the
crater.
The
crater
The
ne-
groes
ran
without
were
used.
The
deafening
roar
Burnside, no
Pha-
fight hard when
the several
massacres that
want of
religious
teaching
of
the
training of the
statesmen on the
restrained
his nature, have
It
would
 
tight
at
the
crater,
where
the
the
confederates
themselves
of Northern Virginia," in
the men,
beyond question,
and men,
right,
colors.
eral
troops,
when
every heart, and strung every arm with nerves of steel,
for the hercu-
hear, not so
defend, be
There
No such
was
here,
with
bodies
formed
a
one
colors
to
division
headquarters,
intensely.
Near
him
'Thank
God.
You
killed
of
one
repair the
water since
ebbing
away.
to
some.
"I
July
31,
1864.
Every-
exposed
fire is too
and
for-
warded
at
testimony
before
us,
rant
interference
with
General
records
that
allowed
to
carry
with
this.
Burnside
then
took
Ledlie's
division
—a
on
its
explosion.
fired
we had
that the
broken
belong
gal-
lantry.
the
head
Bross, of
the Twenty-ninth,
was killed
earthwork
six
feet
fire
in
supported,
of
faster
than
the
War
whom
he
believe if
well
as
corps,
re-
crossed
in
some four
Birney
to disobey
in the
in
the
day,
and
all day
Os-
born's
brigade.
in
support
of
ar-
Petersburg.
At
Considerable
picket-firing
oc-
curred during the night and day, the men being with difficulty restrained
from it.
men
got
regiment
moved
forward
at
it reached the
the
brigade
Fizzel's
when
ordered,
were crossed
ment went
occupied the
of
a
checker-board
had fallen
into our
amusement were
about equal.
were all pres-
to act
in conjunc-
corps
June
thousand.
circumstances
would
rations. Moved
at Maj.-Gen.
time
had
expired.
"The
23d
passed
placed in
a heavy
a
regiment
of the
and
Jones'
the
morning
of
taken when
you reach
it, push
Heights,
was
of the
in their
fire
head
of
the
column
which
liter-
ally
and shell
enemy did
not stop
army
could
foot-note.']
behalf of the equal civil rig-tits of the negro race. In it he referred to the gallant
charge of
to
desk and
three hundred
yards long,
and that way, lest he should profane with his hoofs
what
faces
upturned
in
the
shining;
sun,
which
no
star
of
glory
had
ever
and
believ-
ing
what
was
the
future
swore
roof
my mouth, if I ever fail to defend the rights of those men
who
have
for their race forever,
lineage
Paternal
muse
And
In the
valor
done,
By
which
the
James,
Just
names,
Were
The Second
Brigade, valiant
at
day.
Beat
the
long
Infantry,
,
fours
go
down
long,
now
their
that
day.
The
they
shone,
clear
the
way,
Following
in gallant
remained
in
vance
as
to
which
Capt.
Bailey
answered,
Has-
kell,
being
the
four
against
the
objective
point.
view, it
The fire
"
ordnance
above
the level of the plain also made the fire in the nature
of
a
ricochet.
"As
latter, and after having
and
musketry,
which,
at
the
Afric's
hecatomb,
her
lineage's
race's
freedom
won,.
Five
hundred
lives
spot
 
the fort was
twelve wide, the excavated
helped up the
the signal nearly
all rose, but
the
the
other points
not so
another
storm
Mack,
the ditch,
whose soldierly
their
;
from
which
"
enemy
the
a
warm
reception
at
when the
remnant of
that
charge asked
'by
G—
d!
if
you had been there you would have thought so. They
marched up just
"'After being
prisons,
we
paroled on the 21st,
of
November
4th,
for
the
arming
of
slaves,
and was
bitter
experience,
four
companies
of
the
destruction
on
an
have
and that
day, the 30th,
rifle-pits
to
was not made simultaneously
next
morning
the
and
oblige,
"'Tours,
under
Ohio,
Second, composed
enemy attacked in force
to be
ready to
move in
out about
half of
to
earthworks, abattis,
regiment.
"On
the
morning, with three
the right.
forward
through
the
and Col. Wright,
produced
Fort
Market
remained during the remainder
tion
and
meant
finally
repulsed,
however,
near Hatcher's Kun,
Gen-
eral
Weitzel.
and
Bushrod
Johnson's
divisions
of
Infantry,
al-
though
a
loud
report,
troops
met
Petersburg, amid
Corps,
on
the
river, lay quietly
Grant kept
Weitzel informed
advantage offered, to
him.
Sunday
play,
of the
troops before
ere it dawned they
come with
it. The
enemy whom
diers; an
evacu-
ated,
and
half
yet
in
sight,
madly
square,
planted
their
"The
command
of
country
for
miles.
and
clothed,
at
Nashville
had
a
cheering
effect
silently
left
the
lines
27th we
crossed the
advance
and
bivouacked
in
the
victory
was the
lines
in
our
forgotten
by
pines
with
matted
underbrush,
an
obstacle
broke
through
the
abattis,
many
The
rush
ance.
In
front
was
the
range
that
almost
every
grew
weaker
until
batteries
line of
A
few
of
for
forth pitiful
valuables,
Nothing-
of
interest
went only
from their
bayonets. Although
a
column,
saying
us!'
In
for
a
fight.
Skirmishers
were
we advanced the Confederate
joy.
About
four
yards from the
the
complexion.
Who
of
the
Army
of
closer
upon
the
confederate
yell
rose
battle's roar, and
of the
;
themselves
against
the
enemy's
left
forward
staff;
he
bore
a
trace the
flying columns
to this
with
the
terrific
haste
haste than he. The
men of the Fifth
than
ancient
adversary,
that
men
on
on every
side, with
he applied Sheridan
From
the
deemed impregnable
the national
to gather
The Phalanx
general
com-
mand
west
of
the
as
high
have
Your own good
national
In
"By
command
of
Lieutenant-General
Grant.
 
occupied
relate
herein
the
patriotic
career
at Columbus,
1864.
Battles:
Fort
out
February,
1866.
9th
Regiment,
1863,
and
Battery B,
Captain Francis
C. Choate.
Louisiana Battery.
and
Battery D,
at
Black
River
Bridge,
Miss.,
December,
1863,
76,
Big
Creek.
Battery
Organized
Battery
H,
Petersburg,
Richmond.
Mustered
out
out November,
tered out
out
out April,
—
Fork.
1865.
21st
out
November,
1865.
29th
Petersburg,
Chapin's
—
Battles:
Honey
—
Regiment,
January,
1864,
as
the
3d
37th
U.S.
Regiment,
December,
1865.
40th
Regiment,
Organized at
Philadelphia, Pa.,
and three years. Consolidated
1865,
of
at
Philadelphia,
Pa.,
Run.
Mustered
out
1865.
44th
—
Volunteers
Bend,
Water-
Missis-
Volunteers
Volunteers;
changed
to
52d
Regiment
out March,
1863. Battles:
James Island,
55th
55th
Regiment
1864,
February
10th,
1865,
Honey
Hill,
Briggen
Creek,
St.
1863,
—
Landing,
La.,
November,
1863,
as
64th Regiment
—
473
Tenn.,
December,
Mustered out March, 1866.
—
d'Af-
Regiment Heavy Artillery,
changed
Mustered
out
—Organized
at
Port
d'Afrique;
changed
to
to 98th
April,
1864;
consolidated
into
Massey,
-
;
—
out
February,
1866.
116th
Regiment,
—
Second Brigade,
Regiment,
117th
Regiment,
10th
Heckman.
First
Draper.—22nd Regi-
ment, 36th Regiment,
with the approval
jubi-
following
the
confederate
troops
out
of
are
spades and pickaxes have
destination is
if
not
massacre
an apparent
regarded
any
plantation
life
a
respite.
hope
of
that
enthusiasm
sought
and
obtained
an
if the
to the
;
upon the
to
supply
and the
dom free, and
it were
subject.
with
"Considering the
exist between the white and black races, while
inter-
mingled
as
at
present
we can
penetrate
our
country,
convert
soldiers,
and
in
thousand
northern
states
to
procure
as
within their
her territory the enemy will
gain
a
large
in subverting slavery
means of
My own opinion
that, with proper regu-
qualifications
or not,
south.
for faithful service. "We
they can
whose
service
derive from black troops,
the
war
upon
their
soldiers, and
difficulty.
late.
the
army;
but
made
a
slaves,
with
letter which
in my opinion,
are
willing
experiment.
"If
States would
provisions
that
might
will
make
"March
9th.—
of this material
had Virginia must
in Mr.
each
day
and
hour,
continually
alarming
the
inhabitants.
Governor
Smith
subject in
encouragement
to
the
many
their
white
officers
in
a
regiment
of
to
your
suggestion
never
my
intention
to
collect
negroes
of
recruiting,
rather
for the slaves
and
radical
for-
gotten
had ever
to
highest and greatest boon,
truth.
The
oppression
United
States
Army
a
large
number
onlv
to
obtain
knowledge,
but
to
educational
more
one who have
;
est
sense
but
he
he
attributed
to
equal
the
corn-field
to
the
thirst
for
a
knowledge
by the
education
to
study
the
ab,
eb,
ob's.
after
they
have
fought,
died where they fell, and their bodies left to the enemy's
mercy,
they
often
found
soldiers
been
in hand, muttering, bla,
established
at
Readville."
Lieutenant James M.
description
of
"The
School-master
none
than
these
men.
Besides
in
quite
a
by
their
inspiriting
his
as
may
well
be
imagined.
As
says
land of
'
as
often
the
instruction
of long
"It must,
lately
escaped
from
at
write. Many an officer can recall
his rather
honor to those
sergeants
 
experience
not onlj^
friend
or
otherwise,
and
They
for some
Officers and
to
recall
their
names
on
this
preserved
thousands
That exception
and
I
sit down
cold,
muddy
banks
of
on the
particularly the colored portion
Regiment,
fell
at
only
a
people's
patriotism
that
can
do
such
things
CORRESPONDENCE
AND
better calculated
a
was
born
a
was given, with
has
connection with
enlisted
men
that
owe is
the approach
57th
the amount
and their
people,
to maintain
fighting
1864,
banks, and had
the
Butler in
Sumner.—
Lester.
Boys
and
after
ordered
to
Beaufort,
before
was
1864,
the
at
which
the move-
a
deep
wood
that the
successive
the enemy on
to
to
obstinate struggle
up
compelled to retire. Some of
the companies
been
silently
massed
in
front
known,
however,
and
advanced
with
a reconnoissance
by
strong
earthworks.
The
men
behaved
very
well ;
for
twenty-three
hours
they
held
this
position,
exposing
themselves
winter,
picketing,
drilling,
building
the spring
month
divis-
ion
to
of the
Harrison,
the
near that point.
"At
Harrison. Early
to
wane,
and
an
ominous
began
to
come
to advance
began
as
they
found
themselves
fairly
of
the
battle-field
relief.
The
poor
actions
were
vindicated
"I
but
instead
of
doing
so
he
and Port Hudson
Frederick Dame with
found
that
changed his position from
then
threw
out
his
night.
Occasionally
appear
them.
Quinn,
cap-
of hard
marching in
heavy order
Union
troops.
"22d.
rifles. The man
prove the bravest
1st, and
nine companies
at
quarter
of
were in line
opened
with
fire was very
iu danger of utter
four
left
companies,
under
a
back
the
men
in
the
played General
of the
a
compliment
"It is over twenty years
ago
nominal com-
Native Guards, organized
a subject
command of
mowed
down
like
day
tha.t
the
cost
and
colored and
which is
you to Sergeant Calice
Native
Guards,
Captain
Sauer,
who
I am told that
dead nearly,
gation
to
furnish
witnesses
to
R."