It mainly consisted of guard duty and acting as overseers to gangs of contrabands at work on the fortifications.
Thrown in contact with such large numbers of contrabands of both sexes as they were, it would not be Companies C and H if the men did not manage to find amusement in their surroundings.
An investigation showed that the contrabands had built a large bonfire, and were singing around it.
The families of the contrabandswere notified, and came stealthily on board.
Orders were issued to the colonels not to take any contrabands on board the boats, and most of them obeyed.
The pickets brought in a negro, one of the first contrabands who came into the lines of the army of the Potomac.
Morning came, but brought no order for the delivery of the contrabands to their former owner.
Colonel Utley informed the inhabitants that any attempt to take contrabandsfrom his lines would be resisted.
I recognize no authority on the subject of delivering up contrabands save that of the President of the United States.
How the articles of wearing apparel were obtained by the contrabands alluded to we have not inquired.
From the captured contrabands Porter learned that the attempt to cut off his retreat was directed by the military authorities at Vicksburg.
These people were first called contrabands at Fortress Monroe; but at Port Royal, where they were next introduced to us in any considerable number, they were generally referred to as freedmen.
Treasury will in his discretion give Mr. Pierce such instructions in regard to Port Royal contrabands as may seem judicious.
Then there was no large city for contrabands to congregate in; besides they had no way of traveling from island to island except on government vessels.
For this purpose I have ordered the quartermaster to furnish you with axes, and tents for the contrabands to be quartered in.
This, we believe, is the only treaty ever made by America in which contrabandswere not subject to confiscation, nor are we aware that any other modern treaty contains this remarkable provision.
One of the contrabands stated she was 112 years of age, and had seen Washington in her early life; she is apparently very old.
Here there were a number of contrabands and their effects taken on board.
The contrabands were mostly slaves that they kept in camps just below Pine Bluff for their own protection.
The quartermaster for the contrabands was Captain Mallory.
The contrabands engaged in the work with that heartiness which, during the war, characterized their labors in our service.
Citizens and contrabands had reported that Longstreet was advancing.
T would give the little sick contrabands something to laugh at.
And in the quaint hamlets that nestled more far, Were contrabands pining to know the north star; And home guards so loath to leave home and its joys, But who dreamed not they staid prize for Averill's boys.
As the party stepped ashore they found a guide among the contrabands who quickly crowded the streets, for the possible coming of the President had been circulated through the city.
I was going after him in company with a religious chap from Boston, who is going down South to see about the contrabands being born again, when we caught sight of Pegasus, in the distance.
The loss of chickens andcontrabands on the other side would be frightful, however great the morality of the mudsills.
The contrabands departed, my boy, in blissful procession, and many of them are undoubtedly happy enough now.
Simultaneously, the patriotic democratic chap appeared on the scene, and insisted upon it that the contrabands should be immediately returned to the Southern Confederacy, as this is a white man's war.
The negro contrabandsthat flocked to our lines during the closing days of the struggle furnished a great deal of amusement to the soldiers.
Contrabands and camp followers were careering by in all states of panic.
No wonder the poor contrabandssay 'Mosby mus' be like de debbel and go all ober to oncst.
Illustration] We now began to meet contrabands of all ages and of all sizes, from the little barefooted piccaninnies and chimney sweeps to the old, gray-haired uncles and turbaned aunties.
Have no fears if you hear movements just beyond you; there are a couple of contrabands here who go with us.
Butler has declared them contrabandsof war, and a lot of Yankee speculators have been sneaking through the plantations, filling their ignorant minds with promises of freedom, a farm, and a share of their masters' property.
The officer of the picket guard being called, and the case presented, the contrabands were permitted to pass through.
On arriving in camp I found that the papers from Washington contained a letter of Secretary Seward, directing General McClellan not to return to their former owners contrabands in our lines.
We have learned from contrabands and other sources that Rebel forces in considerable numbers are being transported westward over this route.
The contrabands flocked to them from every quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contrabands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
