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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The "Yankee" negroes. (search)
nd a recital of the affair is daily indulged in In my hearing one fellow was discoursing of it to some new recruits. Said he: "Yous oughter seen the gunboat Jackson fro a t'ousand pound shell at the secesh, when it went plum among us cullud soldiers, and you oughter seen the dead niggers fall. "Yah! Yah!" Apparently enjoying the remintscence as a laughable joke. "An old secesh woman," continued the inquacious darkey, "put her head fru de window, and says she, 'Oncle, is you come to stay?'" "Dara old rip knowed we didn't 'come to stay' when that was free or four gorillas in de house, and l'd frod away my gun and run for de gunboat." Notwithstanding this defeat, disgraceful and discouraging the Yankee officers maintained that the negroes would fight well, and Adj't Gen Thomas when he reviewed them in our presence said that he was once a slaveholder, but was proud to see them free and shake them by the hand. At Port Hudson and Milliken's Bend they had fought desperately, and only a few