S IN JUNE, 1864.

59th, 61st, 68th Regt's., Battery I, 2nd Reg't., Artillery (light.)

FOOTNOTES:

[34] Dr. Wright, a prominent secessionist at Norfolk, Va., swore to
shoot the first white man that he caught drilling negroes. Lieutenant A.
S. Sanborn, of this regiment, while marching a squad to headquarters
through the main street of the city was shot and killed by this Dr.
Wright, for which he was hanged.

[35] There was with this division eleven batteries, four regiments of
cavalry of white troops.

[36] Detached in July.

[37] Detached June 28th to Department Headquarters.

[38] Assigned June 22d, 1864.

[39] Organized in November, 1864.

[40] All white in the Artillery Brigade.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE.

The leaders at the South in preparing for hostilities showed the people
of the North, and the authorities at Washington, that they intended to
carry on the war with no want of spirit; that every energy, every nerve,
was to be taxed to its utmost tension, and that not only every white
man, but, if necessary, every black man should be made to contribute to
the success of the cause for which the war was inaugurated.
Consequently, with the enrollment of the whites began the employment of
the blacks.

Prejudice against the negro at the North was so strong that it required
the arm of public authority to protect him from assault, though he
declared in favor of the Union. Not so at the South, for as early as
April, 1861, the free negroes of New Orleans, La., held a public meeting
and began the organization of a battalion, with officers of their own
race, with the approval of the _State_ government, which commissioned
their negro officers. When the Louisiana militia was reviewed, the
Native Guards (negro) made up, in part, the first division of the State
troops. Elated at the success of being first to place negroes in the
field together with white troops, the commanding general sent the news
over the wires to the jubilant confederacy:

"NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 23rd, 1861.

"Over 28,000 troops were reviewed to-day by Governor Moore,
Major-General Lovell and Brigadier-General Ruggles. The line
was over seven miles long; _one regiment comprised 1,400
free colored men_."

The population of the city of New Orleans differs materially from that
of any other city on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. It has several
classes of colored people: the Engl