Thursday, August 15, 2013

Loyal Blacks for the Forts

Several officers of Port Royal, among them the Colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment, write in hearty approval of the suggestion made by Senator Grimes, that the forts ought to be garrisoned by loyal blacks.  The Colonel says that he would like to raise a regiment of blacks in Philadelphia, with which to garrison Southern forts.  He promises to do it in ten days after he is empowered.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p. 2

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