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Example sentences for "negro troops"

  • Andrew, of Massachusetts, to raise two regiments of Negro troops to serve three years.

  • We have in addition from an officer of the regiment, who is thoroughly informed as to its condition, a very interesting statement of its remarkable progress, and some valuable suggestions on the employment of negro troops in general.

  • Lee must evacuate it for the want of negro troops.

  • Smith, in his message to the Legislature now in session, recommends the employment of negro troops, even if it results in their emancipation.

  • Here we note free black officers of Negro troops in 1735.

  • The mayor rejected it, and Swayne then informed Parsons that Mobile had to have either a new mayor, or martial law and a garrison of negro troops.

  • Buck of Maine had been an officer of negro troops.

  • All this time in some of the Northern States an opposition as strong as at the South had existed against organizing negro troops, and in some instances even against employing them as soldiers.

  • Review of Negro Troops in New Orleans--The Battle of New Orleans 72 PART II.

  • Officers of the army in the field, expressed their desire to be placed in command of negro troops, in separate and distinct organizations.

  • Footnote 1-12: The development of post-World War I policy is discussed in considerable detail in Lee, Employment of Negro Troops, Chapters I and II.

  • His main force at the battle of Nashville was two brigades of negro troops, and their conduct was highly commended by him.

  • Such is a brief statement of the question of negro troops, as affecting the slaves of the South and their traitor masters.

  • Thus much will suffice for objections to negro troops, on the ground of their incapacity.

  • It may be added that 'Baldy' Smith has never been known as being particularly partial to the use of negro troops.

  • Briggs of Columbus, Georgia, to raise a regiment of Negro troops, stating that it was not probable that any such policy would be adopted by Congress.

  • After the passage of the measure by the Confederate Congress, General Lee coƶperated in every way with the War Department in facilitating the recruiting of Negro troops.

  • Williams, Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, Journals of Congress, Vol.

  • Morgan, speaking of the courage of Negro troops in the battle of Nashville, and its effect upon Major-General George H.

  • From Chapter XVI of his book, "Negro Troops in the Rebellion," the paragraphs appended at the close of this chapter are quoted.

  • Negro troops of antebellum Louisiana; a history of the Battalion of Free Men of Color.

  • No pages in the history of this country are more replete with the record of good fighting, military efficiency and soldierly conduct, than those recording the story of Negro troops in Cuba.

  • New York, however, passed a special act of the legislature and organized two regiments of Negro troops, while there was heavy recruiting in other states.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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