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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., Xxii. Negro soldiery. (search)
Thirty were carried off by Tarleton from Jefferson's own homestead; and Jefferson characteristically says: Letter to Gordon aforesaid. Had this been to give them freedom, he would have done right. The War of 1812 with Great Britain was much shorter than that of the Revolution, and was not, like that, a struggle for life or death. Yet, short as it was, negro soldiers — who, at the outset, would doubtless have been rejected — were in demand before its close. New York authorized Oct. 24, 1814. the raising of two regiments of freemen of color --to receive the same pay and allowances as Whites — and provided that any able-bodied slave might enlist therein with the written assent of his master or mistress, who was to receive his pay aforesaid, while the negro received his freedom: being manumitted at the time of his honorable discharge. Gen. Jackson's employment of Blacks in his famous defense of New Orleans — his public and vigorous reprobation Proclamation dated Mobile,