Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Gates” in chapter 22 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...es, but only of those still held in bondage.
Many were thereupon emancipated in order that they might lawfully serve in the patriot forces; and the tendency to recruiting negroes was so strong that Gen. Gates was constrained to issue the following stringent instructions to the patriot recruiting-officers:
You are not to enlist any deserter from the Ministerial army; nor any stroller, negro, or vagab...
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