Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Banks” 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.:

...ile there is no case on record where a soldier deemed fit for a captaincy in a colored regiment rejected it and clung to the ranks, in deference to his invincible antipathy to niggers. And, though Gen. Banks , in his order directing the recruitment of a Corps d'afrique in his department, saw fit to say that The prejudices or opinions of men are in no wise involved; and it is not established upon a...
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