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Example sentences for "negro regiment"

  • To command a negro regiment or company was at this date a coveted prize, for which men of wealth and education contended.

  • Teachers, supplied by the superintendent of the colony, who was usually the chaplain of a negro regiment, or by benevolent associations, were allowed to take charge of the education of the blacks in any colony they decided to enter.

  • Ex-Governor Chapman's family were turned out of their home to make room for a negro regiment.

  • When the people of a community were especially contemptuous of the Federals, they were sometimes punished by having a negro regiment stationed as a garrison.

  • Washington, called attention to the raising of a Negro regiment on Staten Island.

  • Moreover, there was a Negro regiment in the Spanish service, whose officers were from their own race.

  • Rutledge of South Carolina, dated at Charleston, urged the importance of raising a Negro regiment at once.

  • Russell of North Carolina, called out a Negro regiment, the Third Infantry, officered by colored men throughout.

  • Fort Pillow had been taken by the Federals and was garrisoned by a Negro regiment and a detachment of cavalry.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called because; commissioned officers and men; deceitful tongue; either parent; hanging down; her great; inclined planes; its back; long course; made out; negro blood; negro children; negro girl; negro regiment; negro schools; negro slave; negro slavery; negro slaves; negro suffrage; negro troops; negro woman; part because; private audience; said slowly; winter visitant; worked out