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A Negro Regiment in Action--The Battle of Island Mounds--Desperate Bravery of the Negros--Defeat of the Guerrillas--An Attempted Fraud.
nytimes.com/1862/11/19/arc…
nytimes.com/1862/11/19/arc…
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"The Fifty-fourth did well and nobly. . . . They moved up as gallantly as any troops could, and with their enthusiasm they deserved a better fate."
-- Edward L. Pierce, correspondent for the New York Tribune, to Governor John A. Andrew,
(July 22, 1863)
hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40676
-- Edward L. Pierce, correspondent for the New York Tribune, to Governor John A. Andrew,
(July 22, 1863)
hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40676
Private Jupiter Sharts: "Tomorrow, we go into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand and Good Book in the other. That if I should die at the muzzle of the rifle, die on water or on land, I may know that You, Blessed Jesus, are with me. And I have no fear."
Sergeant Major John Rawlins: Lord, we stand before you this evenin' to say thank you. We thank you, Father, for your grace and your many blessins'. Now, I run off and left all my youngins and my kinfolk in bondage. So I'm standin' here this evenin', Heavenly Father, to ask ...
... your blessin! On all of us! So that if tomorrow is our great gettin' up mornin', if tomorrow we have to meet the Judgment Day, our Heavenly Father we want you to let our folks know that we died facin' the enemy. We want 'em to know that we went down standin' up, ....
... amongst those that are fightin' against our oppression. We want 'em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died for freedom. We ask these blessins' in Jesus name. Amen. Amen! Amen!"
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