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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 II. 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 36 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 28 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 14 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 11 1 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 10 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The "Yankee" negroes. (search)
ntidiness of appearance, upon the part of the "coffered" soldiers, is visited with severe extra duty. Under Butler's reign negroes were officers, but with the new regime, the position of sergeant is the great object of their ambition. From the strutting airs of these scions of "loyalty," one can surmise the importance which formerly attacked to commissioned officers. In addition to their duties as soldiers, by which they are required to drill once and review twice daily, these swarthy "Unionists" are required to act as cooks and servants for the white officers, who lord it over them very heavily, certainly with no encouraging disposition to the equality of races. Of the drill and discipline of the negroes I have no hesitation in stating that I believe that they are unsurpassed.--Of their fighting qualities we had an exhibition a year ago when the same troops landed at Pascagoula for the purpose of pillage and plunder, with which their encampment on Ship Island was to be furnished