. THE RECRUITING OFFICE 200
35. BATTLE OF MILLIKEN'S BEND 204
36. UNLOADING GOVERNMENT STORES 211
37. CHARGE OF THE PHALANX AT PORT HUDSON 214
38. PRESENTATION OF COLORS (1) 223
39. REPELLING AN ATTACK 231
40. CAVALRY BRINGING IN PRISONERS 236
41. CAPTURING BATTERY OF ARTILLERY 242
42. THE WOODEN HORSE 249
43. AT FORT WAGNER 255
44. BRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE PHALANX 270
45. RIVER PICKET DUTY 277
46. CHANGED CONDITIONS 286
47. SERVING REFRESHMENTS TO UNION TROOPS 306
48. SCOUTING SERVICE 312
49. FIGHTING BLOODHOUNDS 320
50. NEGROES FEEDING ESCAPING UNION PRISONERS 342
51. MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW 350
52. PHALANX REGIMENT RECEIVING ITS FLAGS (2) 377
53. PARADE OF THE 20TH REGIMENT U. S. C. T. IN NEW YORK 378
54. SCENE IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 391
55. AT WORK ON RIVER OBSTRUCTIONS 401
56. PHALANX CHARGE AT PETERSBURG, VA. 402
57. IN THE TRENCHES 411
58. BEFORE PETERSBURG, BURYING DEAD UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE 425
59. A GOVERNMENT BLACKSMITH SHOP 445
60. GENERAL GRANT AND THE NEGRO SENTINEL 446
61. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ENTERING RICHMOND 452
62. ON DUTY FOR THE CONFEDERATES 484
63. A CONFEDERATE SHARPSHOOTER 499
64. "PAYING OFF" 506

PART I.

THE WARS FOR INDEPENDENCE

1775-1812.

CHAPTER I.

THE WAR OF 1775.

The history of the patriotic Negro Americans who swelled the ranks of
the Colonial and Continental armies has never been written, nor was any
attempt made by the historians of that day to record the deeds of those
who dared to face death for the independence of the American Colonies.
W. H. Day, in addressing a convention of negro men at Cleveland