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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Banks on African soldiers. (search)
order, dated the 1st, at Opelousas, in which he announces his purpose to organize a "corps d'armee of colored troops," to consist of eighteen regiments of all arms — infantry, cavalry, and artillery — limited to five hundred men each. He quotes Thiers and Chambray as authority that the 'valor of the soldier is rather acquired than natural.' Much depends upon the influence of the officers, and he proposes to detach for permanent or temporary duty in the organization of this corps. Banks arguesay 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 as authority that the "valor of the soldier is rather acquired than natural." We doubt the truth of the maxim in its application to Southern soldiers, but the history of this war demonstrates its applicability to Banks and his brothe