[Footnote 2: Williams, History of the Negro Troops in the War of the
Rebellion, p. 70.]
[Footnote 3: Greely, American Conflict, I, p. 585.]
[Footnote 4: Ibid., II, p. 246.]
[Footnote 5: Official Records of the Rebellion, VIII, p. 628.]
[Footnote 6: Williams, Negro Troops, p. 66 et seq.]
[Footnote 7: Official Records of the Rebellion, VIII, p. 370;
Williams, Negro Troops, p. 75.]
[Footnote 8: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 87, 92.]
[Footnote 9: Pierce, Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina, passim; Botume, First Days Among the Contrabands, pp. 10-22; and Pearson, Letters from Port Royal, passim.]
[Footnote 10: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 92.]
[Footnote 11: Ibid., pp. 2, 3.]