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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
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Subject: Re: Glory, strange tactics.
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Date: 12 Apr 90 00:55:54 GMT
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)

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'                             Also, it was the policy of the Confederate
'forces to kill any black soldier and his white officer captured, any of
'the black soldiers not killed outright were sold into slavery.
'
'Charles Lindsey
'Naval Civil Engineering Lab
'Port Hueneme, CA  93043


	While that may have been policy, it was not necessarilly
the fate of every captured black his officer who was captured.
Actually, not a whole lot were murdered, because there were many
Confederate POW's in the North, whose safety had to be considered
in the South's actions.

	In "The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant", Grant says that the
first use of black troops in battle was during the Vicksburg(sp)
campaign of May-July 1863. They participated along with white
infantry in action in the vicinity of Millikens Bend while Grant
was to the East of Vicksburg.  Grant was quite pleased with their
performance.

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