Alabamians in Blue by Christopher M. Rein T. Michael Parrish

Author:Christopher M. Rein, T. Michael Parrish [Christopher M. Rein, T. Michael Parrish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807170663
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2019-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

You must have learned by this time that the attempt to intimidate the colored troops by indiscriminate slaughter has signally failed, and that instead of a feeling of terror you have aroused a spirit of courage and desperation that will not drown at your bidding. I am left in doubt by your letter as to the course you and the Confederate Government intend to pursue hereafter in regard to colored troops, and I beg you to advise me with as little delay as possible as to your intention. If you intend to treat such of them as fall into your hands as prisoners of war, please so state. If you do not so intend, but contemplate either their slaughter or their return to slavery, please state that, so that we may have no misunderstanding hereafter. If the former is your intention, I shall receive the announcement with pleasure, and shall explain the fact to the colored troops at once, and desire that they recall the oath that they have taken. If the latter is the case, then let the oath stand, and upon those who have aroused this spirit by their atrocities, and upon the Government and the people who sanction it, be the consequences.60

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