Notes

1.      Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, pp. 265-266.

2.      Charleston Daily Courier, January 8, 1863.

3.      Charleston Daily Courier, February 16, 1863.

4.      Jordon and Pratt, Europe and the American Civil War, p. 73.

5.      Education of Henry Adams, pp. 130-131.

6.      Schlüter, Lincoln, Labor and Slavery, p. 158.

7.      Schlüter, Lincoln, Labor and Slavery, pp. 161, 162, 163.

8.      Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, pp. 146, 147.

9.      Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, pp. 151-154.

10.    Parton, Butler in New Orleans, pp. 491, 493.

11.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 192.

12.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 195.

13.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, pp. 292, 293.

14.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 120.

15.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, pp. 289, 290. (Italics ours.)

16.    Herz, Abraham Lincoln, II, pp. 931-932. (Italics ours.)

17.    Woodson, Negro Orators, pp. 249, 251.

18.    Report of the Merchants Committee, p. 7.

19.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 394.

20.    Story told by Smalls to the A. M. E. General Conference, Philadelphia, May, 1864.

21.    New Orleans Tribune, May 4, 1865.

22.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, p. 262.

23.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 305.

24.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, p. 314.

25.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 211.

26.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, p. 321.

27.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, pp. 320, 321.

28.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, p. 327.

29.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 256.

30.    Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, pp. 338, 339.

31.    Testimony Before Congressional Committee; cited in Wilson, p. 428.

32.    Hill, Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops, pp. 26, 27.

33.    Nicolay and Hay give 149 regiments. VI, p. 468.

34.    Cf. Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, Chapter IV; and Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, pp. 299-301.

35.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, pp. 316, 317.

36.    The following account is mainly from Charles Wesley’s article, Journal of Negro History, IV, pp. 242-243.

37.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, pp. 491, 492.

38.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 490.

39.    Wilson, History of the Black Phalanx, p. 494.

40.    New Orleans Tribune, February 25, 1865.

41.    Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 1866, p. 8.

42.    General T. J. Morgan, in Wilson, Black Phalanx, p. 289.