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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
nter to make explicit answers. General Hunter said: To the first question, I reply, that no regiment of fugitive slaves has been or is being organized in this Department. There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late meters are fuqlitive rebels--men who everywhere fly before the appearance of the National flag, leaving their servants behind them to shift as best they can for themselves. Yet a few weeks later Secretary Stanton, by special order, directed Aug 25, 1862. General Rufus Saxton, Military Governor of the sea-coast islands, to arm, uniform, equip, and receive into the service of the United States, such number of volunteers of African descent, not exceeding five thousand, as he might deem expedient to guard that region and the inhabitants from injury by the public enemy Then followed a proposition from General G. W. Phelps to General Butler, his chief, to organize negro regiments in Louisiana, to be composed of the fugitive slaves who were flocking to his ca
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
take, at one stride, after leaving Savannah, to make Goldsboroa, and open Hardee's Headquarters in Charleston. Hardee's Headquarters were at the house of Mr. Wickenberg, on Ashley Street, opposite the front of the *United States Arsenal. General Saxton also had his Headquarters there, after the Confederates evacuated Charleston. communications with the sea, by the New Berne railroad, and for that purpose, he sent Colonel W. W. Wright, superintendent of military roads, to New Berne to preparelling of Charleston, at long range, from Morris Island, with very little effect. In May and June, as we have observed, Gillmore was on the James River, and all was quiet around Charleston. At the beginning of July, the four brigades of Birney, Saxton, Hatch, and Schimmelfennig, were concentrated on John's Island, and, with a gun-boat on the North Edisto, made some demonstrations against Confederate works there, but with no advantageous result. The Twenty-sixth United States negro troops, Col