Thursday, August 28, 2014

Captain Robert Gould Shaw to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, March 17, 1863

March 17, 1863.

The regiment continues to flourish. Yesterday we had some officers out to take a look at the men. They all went away very much pleased. Some were very sceptical about it before, but say now that they shall have no more doubt of negroes' making good soldiers.

SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 203

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