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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)
ficiency of Black soldiers. the first fatal collision March 5, 1770. between British soldiers and American patriots was popularly distinguished as the Boston Massacre; and Crispus Attucks, a mulatto fugitive from Massachusetts Slavery, was a leader of the patriot mob, and one of the four killed outright by the British fire. At the fight of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Peter Salem, one of the enfranchised negroes who manned the slight breast-works so gallantly defended, shot dead Maj. Pitcairn, of the British marines, who, in the final struggle, had scaled the redoubt, shouting, The day is our own! and was commanding the Rebels to surrender. Negroes and mulattoes largely swelled the motley host of raw but gallant patriots suddenly collected Nor should history forget to record that, as in the army at Cambridge, so also in this gallant band, the free negroes of the colony had their representatives. For the right of free negroes to bear arms in the public defense was, at th