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Simmons, William J. - Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p840-842
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“In statistics recently compiled and published it is plain’y shown that the negro is not equal to the burdens of freedom, and that when he puts on a uniform he has almost surely enshrouded himself for burial.”
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"In 1861. . . [Colored men] were told that this war, which was just beginning, was a white man’s war, and no negroes were wanted. . . .Many predicted that this war would not be settled until the black man’s assistance was had."
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