472
Order No. 426. Adjutant-General's Office, Headquarters Louisiana Militia, March 24, 1862.Cf. Brown, The Negro in the Rebellion, pp. 84-85.
473
Parton, History of the Administration of the Gulf, 1862-1864; General Butler in New Orleans, p. 517.
474
Greely, The American Conflict, p. 521.
475
The Charleston Mercury, January 3, 1861.
476
The announcement of the recruiting read: "Attention, volunteers: Resolved by the Committee of Safety that C. Deloach, D. R. Cook and William B. Greenlaw be authorized to organize a volunteer company composed of our patriotic free men of color, of the city of Memphis, for the service of our common defense. All who have not enrolled their names will call at the office of W. B. Greenlaw & Co."
F. W. Forsythe, Secretary. F. Titus, President.
Williams, History of the Negro, Vol. II, p. 277.
477
Greely, The American Conflict, Vol. II, p. 521.
478
Memphis Avalanche, September 3, 1861.
479
Greely, The American Conflict, Vol. II, p. 522.
480
Ibid., p. 277.
481
Ibid., Vol. II, p. 522.
482
The Baltimore Traveler, February 4, 1862.
483
Greely, The American Conflict, Vol. II, p. 522.
484
Schwab, The Confederate States of America, p. 193. Moore, Rebellion Records, Vol. VII, p. 210. Jones, Diary, Vol. I, p. 381.
485
An indorsement from the Secretary of War reads: "If all white men capable of bearing arms are put in the field, it would be as large a draft as a community could continuously sustain, and whites are better soldiers than Negroes. For war, when existence is staked, the best material should be used."—Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, pp. 693-694.
486
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, p. 799.
487
Ibid., Series IV, Vol. III, p. 846. J. A. Seddon to Maj. E. B. Briggs, Nov. 24, 1864.
488
Ibid., Series IV, Vol. III, p. 1009.
489
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series I, Vol. XXVIII, Pt. 2, p. 13.
490
Ibid., Series I, Vol. LII, Pt. 2, p. 598.
491
Davis, Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida, p. 226.
492
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, pp. 959-960.
493
Ibid., p. 227.
494
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, pp. 1010-1011.
495
Rhodes, History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850, Vol. IV, p. 525.
496