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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The "Yankee" negroes. (search)
eir duties as soldiers, by which they are required to drill once and review twice daily, these swarthy "Unionists" are required to act as cooks and servants for the white officers, who lord it over them very heavily, certainly with no encouraging disposition to the equality of races. Of the drill and discipline of the negroes I have no hesitation in stating that I believe that they are unsurpassed.--Of their fighting qualities we had an exhibition a year ago when the same troops landed at Pascagoula for the purpose of pillage and plunder, with which their encampment on Ship Island was to be furnished, upon which occasion less than 20 Confederates defeated and routed in panic the 1,200 ebony "Union soldiers," supported as they were by two gunboats! The Yankees acknowledge this defeat and the great disparity of numbers, attributing the cause to the absence of white officers, only a thin skinned Colonel, one Daniels, being with them, and he never having left the transport. This contest