guiding my horse this way and that way, lest he
should profane with his hoofs what seemed to me the sacred dead,
and as I looked on their bronze faces upturned in the shining
sun, as if in mute appeal against the wrongs of the country for
which they had given their lives, whose flag had only been to
them a flag of stripes, on which no star of glory had ever shone
for them--feeling I had wronged them in the past, and believing
what was the future of my country to them--among my dead comrades
there, I swore to myself a solemn oath--'May my right hand forget
its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,' if I
ever fail to defend the rights of those men who have given their
blood for me and my country that day and for their race forever,
and God helping me, I will keep that oath."

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BATTLES IN WHICH COLORED TROOPS PARTICIPATED.

"Alliance," Steamer, Fla. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
March 8, 1865. May 4, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 99th Inf. U. S. C. T. 4th Inf.

Amite River, La. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
March 18, 1865. May 20, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 77th Inf. U. S. C. T. 1st Cav.

Appomattox Court House, Va. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
April 9, 1865. Aug. 24 and 25, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 41st Inf. U. S. C. T. 7th Inf.

Arkansas River, Ark. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
Dec. 18, 1864. Nov. 30 and Dec. 4, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 54th Inf. U. S. C. T. 19th Inf.

Ash Bayou, La. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
Nov. 19, 1864. Dec. 1, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 93d Inf. U. S. C. T. 39th Inf.

Ashepoo River, S. C. Bermuda Hundred, Va.
May 16, 1864. Dec. 13, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 34th Inf. U. S. C. T. 23d Inf.

Ashwood, Miss. Berwick, La.
June 25, 1864. April 26, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 63d Inf. U. S. C. T. 98th Inf.

Ashwood Landing, La. Big Creek, Ark.
May 1 and 4, 1864. July 26, 1864.
U. S. C. T. 64th Inf. U. S. C. T. Batt'ry E, 2d Lt. Art.;
60th Inf.

Athens, Ala. Big Springs, Ky.
Sept. 24, 1864.