Battle
Port
Hudson
Milliken’s
Bend
Fort
Wagner
Battle of the Crater
Quote(s)
“Loyal Whites have generally become willing that they should fight, but the great majority have no faith that they will really do so. Many hope they will prove cowards and sneaks -- others greatly fear it."
Who wrote or said this?
The New York
Tribune
What does this quote tell us about the views of the person quoted?
That many Northern whites anticipated that African
Americans would fail as soldiers.
What does this tell us about the experiences of the “US Colored Troops?”
That racism was not confined to the
Confederacy, and that even Northerners feared the success of African-American troops.
"The severe test to which they were subjected, and the determined manner in which they encountered the enemy, leaves upon my mind no doubt of their ultimate success."
Union General
Nathaniel P.
Banks
That Banks was open-minded to
African-Americans’ quality as soldiers.
The African-Americans demonstrated great courage on the battlefield, and that this promised progress for them in other aspects as well.
That McCullough couldn’t help but respect the fighting abilities of men who he still could not regard as “true Yankees”.
That African-American troops were capable of fighting as well or better than white troops.
[My] "charge was resisted by the negro portion of the enemy's force with considerable obstinacy, while the white or true Yankee position ran like whipped curs almost as soon as the charge was ordered."
"We have buried him with his niggers.”
"If I fall in the battle anticipated, remember I fall in defense of my race and my country."
Confederate
General Henry
McCullough
Anonymous
Confederate soldier
Anonymous
African-
American sergeant
That this soldier was racist and disrespectful even to fallen fellow soldiers.
That this soldier knew and believed in the larger causes he was fighting for.
Demonstrates the contempt of many
Confederates for African-American soldiers and the white officers who led them.
That African-American soldiers thought of themselves not only as liberators of their people, but as Americans.
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