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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 974 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 442 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 288 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 246 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 216 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 192 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 166 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 146 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 144 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 136 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The "Yankee" negroes. (search)
ence. Detailed negroes did our cooking and performed the servants' part, but were extremely insolent, and more conspicuously among these was "Ed.," a boy who was the property of Ed Somers, Esq, of New Orleans, and who had run off from Pass Christian in a skiff. On Sunday we obtained an excellent view of the entire force on the Island, the 2d regiment of the corps d'afrique. This was the first regiment raised by Butler, and is composed not only of runaway slaves, but many free negroes of Louisiana. They object decidedly to be called corps d'afrique, and style themselves the 2d Louisiana. About 400 were on drill and parade, and certainly made a superb appearance with fine blue cloth uniforms, highly polished shoes, standing linen collars, and immaculate white dress gloves, with muskets polished like burnished gold and silver. An excellent band filled the air with martial strains, and the manual of arms and evolutions on the field were executed with a precision and spirit which sho