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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Banks on African soldiers. (search)
e of mules, horses, uneducated and educated white men in the defence of its institutions. Why should not the negro contribute whatever is in his power for the cause in which he is as deeply interested as other men?" The British Government in the war of the Revolution made use of animals and educated and uneducated white men.--Why did Banks's ancestors complain that they also made use of Indians, a superior race to the black man? And, besides, if the United States Government can make use of Butler and Banks, why not of negroes? The negro is a superior being to the Yankees and Butlers. He is naturally more of a gentleman, and by education and association more refined and humans than either of those white savages. Banks may spare his apologies. After employing such instruments as the present and late Military Governors of New Orleans, the adoption of negroes is a step upwards in the Yankee mode of conducting war. Nor was it necessary that Banks should quote Thiers and Chambray