The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity. William Wells Brown

CHAPTER XXVI.—HE NORTHERN WING OF THE REBELLION.

       CHAPTER XXVII—ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER.

       “ FRANCIS GEORGE SHAW.

       “ Q. A. GILLMORE ,

       “ R. SAXTON,

       “ T. H. BARTLETT,

       “ E. N. HALLOWELL ,

       CHAPTER XXVIII—THE SLAVE-MARTYR.

       CHAPTER XXIX—BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLORIDA.

       CHAPTER XXX—BATTLE OF POISON SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

       “ R. G. WARD,

       “J. BOWLES,

       CHAPTER XXXI—THE MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW.

       CHAPTER XXXII—INJUSTICE TO COLORED TROOPS.

       “ JOHN A. ANDREW,

       CONDEMNED AND SHOT FOR MUTINY.

       CHAPTER XXXIII.—BATTLE OF HONEY HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.

       CHAPTER XXXIV—BEFORE PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND.

       CHAPTER XXXV—WIT AND HUMOR OF THE WAR.

       CHAPTER XXXVI—A THRILLING INCIDENT OF THE WAR.

       CHAPTER XXXVII—PROGRESS AND JUSTICE.

       “ J. J. ELWELL.

       CHAPTER XXXVIII—FOURTH-OF-JULY CELEBRATION AT THE HOME OF JEFF. DAVIS.

       DAVIS’S BEND .

       THE “JOE PLACE.”

       THE “JEFF. PLACE.”

       THE HOUSE THAT JEFF. BUILT.

       “THE HOUSE THAT JEFF. BUILT.”

       “WELCOME.”

       “EXIT TRAITOR.”

       THE GROUNDS.

       THE EXERCISES.

       THE DINNER.

       REGULAR TOASTS.

       “THE HOUSE THAT JEFF. BUILT.”

       CLOSING EXERCISES.

       CHAPTER XXXIX—GALLANTRY, LOYALTY, AND KINDNESS OF THE NEGRO.

       CHAPTER XL—FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY, AND DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

       CHAPTER XLI—PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON.

       CHAPTER XLII—ILL TREATMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE SOUTH

       CHAPTER XLIII—PROTECTION FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE.

       CHAPTER XLIV—CASTE.

       CHAPTER XLV—SIXTH REGIMENT UNITED-STATES VOLUNTEERS.

PREFACE.

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      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.

      In collecting facts connected with the Rebellion, I have availed myself of the most reliable information that could be obtained from newspaper correspondents, as well as from those who were on the battle-field. To officers and privates of several of the colored regiments I am under many obligations for detailed accounts of engagements.

      No doubt, errors in fact and in judgment will be discovered, which I shall be ready to acknowledge, and correct in subsequent editions. The work might have been swelled to double its present size; but I did not feel bound to introduce an account of every little skirmish in which colored men were engaged.

      I waited patiently, before beginning this work, with the hope that some one more competent would take the subject in hand; but, up to the present, it has not been done, although many books have been written upon the Rebellion.

WILLIAM