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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, March, 1863. (search)
the negro. The concluding paragraph of his letter was in these words: . The service can not possibly suffer by my resignation. The document passed through my hands on its way to Department head quarters, and I indorsed it as follows: Major H. F. Kalfus, Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, being painfully and reluctantly convinced that the party in power is disposed to elevate the negro, desires to quit the service. I trust he will be allowed to do so, and cheerfully certify to the corould see; and I directed him to the Colonel's tent. As he turned to leave, he muttered, Man tole me Eighty-eighth Olehio ; but he went hobbling over to the Eighty-eighth, with fear, anxiety, and hope struggling in his old face. March, 4 Major Kalfus, Fifteenth Kentucky, arrested on Sunday, and since held in close confinement, was dishonorably dismissed from the service to-day for using treasonable language in tendering his resignation. He was escorted outside the lines and turned loose.