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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)
ined the Previous Question thereon; and an attempt to lay it on the table having failed (Yeas 30; Nays 77), it was passed, July 16. and signed next day by the President. By another act of like date and similar history, Congress prescribed that the enrollment of the Militia shall in all cases include all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45. In the next Congress, the enrollment of the National forces being under consideration in the House, Mr. Stevens, of Pa., Feb. 10, 1864. moved to amend it by striking out the 27th section, and inserting instead the following: And be it further enacted, That all able-bodied male persons of African descent, between the ages of 20 and 45. whether citizens or not, shall be enrolled and made a part of the National forces; and, when enrolled and drafted into the service, his master shall be entitled to receive $300, and the drafted man shall be free. Mr. S. H. Boyd, of Mo., suggested that only loyal masters be entitle