Monday, September 1, 2014

Captain Robert Gould Shaw to Francis G. Shaw, March 30, 1863

March 30.

The mustering officer who was here to-day is a Virginian, and has always thought it was a great joke to try to make soldiers of “Niggers, but he tells me now that he has never mustered in so fine a set of men, though about twenty thousand had passed through his hands since September. The sceptics need only to come out here to be converted.

SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 204

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