"It was a notorious fact that the enemy were using Negroes to build fortifications, drive teams and raise food for the army. Black hands piled up the sand-bags and raised the batteries which drove Anderson out of Sumter. At Montgomery, the Capital of the Confederacy, Negroes were being drilled and armed for military duty."—W. W. Brown, The Negro in the Rebellion, p. 59.
[7] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 521.
[8] Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. I, p. 237; Schwab, The Confederate States of America, p. 194.
[9] Laws of Florida, 12th Session, 1862, Chap. 1378.
[10] Confederate War Department, Bureau of Conscription, Circular No. 36, December 12, 1864. Off. Reds. Reb., Series IV, Vol. III, p. 933.
[11] Off. Reds. Reb., Series IV, Vol. Ill, p. 780. Journals of Congress, IV, 260.
[12] Washington, The Story of the Negro, Vol. II, p. 321.
[13] Order No. 426. Adjutant-General's Office, Headquarters Louisiana Militia, March 24, 1862. Cf. Brown, The Negro in the Rebellion, pp. 84-85.
[14] Parton, History of the Administration of the Gulf, 1862-1864; General Butler in New Orleans, p. 517.
[15] Greely, The American Conflict, p. 521.