ork, 164;
prohibited the use of the streets, kidnapped, 165;
school trustees, 171, 172;
admitted to Oberlin College, 172;
the employment of, as clerks forbidden, 180;
stringent laws of Va., 180, 181;
attacked by a mob, 188;
population in United States, 229;
their services in the War of 1861 declined, not the cause of the
War of 1861, 242;
arrest of free, by the army, 244;
ordered from the Union army, 250;
on fatigue duty, 260-262;
employed as teamsters and in the quartermaster's department, 260;
number at Port Royal, cultivate land, self-supporting, 261;
order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate
States, 261, 262;
fortifications and earthworks built by, industrious and earn
promotion, 262;
emancipation proclamations, 263-275;
President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation imparts new hope
to the, 274;
as soldiers in the War of 1861, 276-309;
in the Confederate service, 277, 278;
presented with war flag, 277;
President Lincoln opposed to the enlistment of, first regiment
of loyal, organized, 278;
official correspondence of the Secretary of War, concerning the
enlistment of, 279, 280;
their abilities as soldiers, 282;
President Lincoln authorizes the raising of five regiments
of, 285;
regiments of free, at New Orleans, 287;
bill in Congress for the employment of, as soldiers, 287;
action of Congress, on the proposed amendment to the army
appropriation bill, to prohibit the enlistment of, 288;
Mass. furnishes regiment of, 289;
official order for the enlistment of, 290;
New York furnishes regiments of, 292;
Pennsylvania regiments of, 293;
prejudice against, as soldiers, free military school
established, 293;
number of, in the army, 297, 299-301;
use of, as soldiers, 301;
the character of, 303;
as soldiers, 306, 310-349;
bravery of, in battle, 308, 313, 323, 329, 336, 338, 342, 345-349;
legally and constitutionally soldiers, 309;
persecuted in the army, 311;
expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers into Ga., and Fla., 314;
at the battle of Port Hudson, 316-323;
commended for their bravery, 323, 338, 346;
Boker's poem on "The Black Regiment," 324;
at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326;
draft riot at N. Y., mob destroy orphan asylum, hang several,