[ CHAPTER XLI—PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON. ]
[ CHAPTER XLII—ILL TREATMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE SOUTH ]
[ CHAPTER XLIII—PROTECTION FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE. ]
[ CHAPTER XLV—SIXTH REGIMENT UNITED-STATES VOLUNTEERS. ]
PREFACE.
Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the part which the Negro took in suppressing the Slaveholders’ Rebellion, I have been induced to write this work. In doing so, it occurred to me that a sketch of the condition of the race previous to the commencement of the war would not be uninteresting to the reader.
For the information concerning the services which the blacks rendered to the Government in the Revolutionary War, I am indebted to the late George Livermore, Esq., whose “Historical Research” is the ablest work ever published on the early history of the negroes of this country.