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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 29 5 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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ch was towed at our stern, where he was shot down by one of my sergeants. Colonel Higginson was on a collecting expedition, and picked up 2500 bars of railroad iron from St. Simon's and Jekyll islands, from abandoned Confederate forts, some valuable yellow pine lumber, rice, resin, cordage, oars, a flock of sheep, horses, steers, agricultural implements, and 40,000 large-sized bricks. The real conductor of the whole expedition up the St. Mary's, Colonel Higginson went on to say, was Corp. Robert Sutton, of Company G, formerly a slave upon the St. Mary's river. In every instance when I followed his advice the predicted result followed, and I never departed from it, however slightly, without finding reason for subsequent regret. Further said the colonel: No officer in this regiment now doubts that the key to the successful prosecution of this war lies in the unlimited employment of black troops. On September 30th a reconnaissance was made by several New York companies up the May riv