The raising of colored troops, I think, will greatly help every way.
The garrison consisted of a regiment of colored troops, infantry, and a detachment of Tennessee cavalry.
This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General Ferrero, belonging to Burnside's corps.
It provided fully for the enlistment of colored troops, and gave the freedmen certain possessory rights to land, which afterward became matters of judicial inquiry and decision.
An Attempt to amend the Army Appropriation Bill so as to prohibit the Further Employment of Colored Troops.
An Order issued by the War Department in the Fall of 1863 for the Enlistment of Colored Troops.
Andrew, of Massachusetts, authorized by Secretary of War to organize Two Regiments of Colored Troops.
The Major General commanding the Department proposes the organization of a corps d'armee of colored troops, to be designated as the "Corps d'Afrique.
The regiment of colored troops in process of organization in the district of Pensacola will be known as the Fifth Regiment of Infantry of the Corps d'Afrique.
The date of the first organization of colored troopsis a question of dispute, but it seems as if the question might be settled, either by the records of the War Department or the personal knowledge of those interested.
Farr left for Vermont this morning; spent three hours this afternoon in the chapel with a class of non-commissioned officers who desire commissions in colored troops, and have requested me to hear them recite in tactics, etc.
Three days later, a general assault took place, in which the First and Second Louisiana, colored troops, bore a prominent part.
While the army was in the Teche country, Brigadier-General Daniel Ullmann had arrived at New Orleans from New York, bringing with him authority to raise a brigade of colored troops.
Large bodies of colored troopswere at work filling gunny-bags and ammunition-boxes with sand, to be used on the top of the parapets for the protection of loop-holes.
General Ferrero, our former commander, was assigned to command the new Fourth Division, composed entirely of colored troops, and most of the regiments were assigned to the new Second and Third Divisions.
A regiment of colored troops was at work all day building a new covered way through our camp in the woods, which necessitated a change of some of our quarters and bomb-proofs.
It may be caused by the nearness of our line, the suspicion of a sudden attack, or because of the presence of colored troops in our working parties.
The first regiment of colored troops raised at the North was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, commanded by Col.
The extreme of opinion in favor of immediate and unqualified emancipation, and of employment of colored troops, with impatience at all delay in adopting such a policy, was represented picturesquely, if not altogether justly, by Count Gurowski.
Six thousand well-dressed and orderly colored people, escorted by two regiments of colored troops, paraded the streets, assembled in the public squares, and were addressed in patriotic speeches by orators of their own race and color.
Colored troops must be kept in bodies sufficient to defend themselves.
Butler, at New Orleans, treating him as an outlaw for organizing regiments of colored troops, or, in fact, for pressing their former slaves into the war in any shape and form.
Lincoln, an inmate of one of our hospitals, a captain of colored troops, promoted on the battle-field for bravery.
Another grievance in the beginning of the enlistment of colored troops was to offer them smaller pay than white men.
It is perfectly true (as I find everybody takes for granted) that the first essential for an officer of colored troops is to gain their confidence.
These details would not be worth mentioning except as they show this fact: that I did not seek the command of colored troops, but it sought me.
Our success or failure may make or mar the prospects of colored troops.
Philoprogenitiveness is an important organ for an officer of colored troops; and I happen to be well provided with it.
Hinks's division of the Eighteenth Corps was composed of colored troops, who had never been under fire.
But it was a rest under fire, day and night, the Ninth and Eighteenth Corps especially being constantly harassed by the enemy, who were bitterly opposed to the employment of colored troops.
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