Army Life in a Black Regiment

"Nobody knows anything about these men, who has not seen them in battle. There is a superstition that they will not look white people in the face; but I have seen them in the extremes of danger, and I never saw a man flinch."

"They were naturally cheerful, kind-hearted, and affectionate, patient under wrong, and full of gratitude for a kind word."

"It gave me a pang to look at them, and then to reflect that the people who had thus served them—who had held them in bondage, torn their families apart, and denied them common rights—were of my own race."

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him get an old musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can give him back his-trowel."

"I have always believed that the most effectual way to secure the respect of the white race is to do whatever is undertaken as well as they can do it, or better."

"The magic of freedom had touched them, and they had begun to move."

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