Lot 26
PENNSYLVANIA NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON BLACK SOLDIERS
An especially interesting Civil War-era newspaper, the Uniontown, Pennsylvania "American Standard", 4pp. folio, July 9, 1863. The paper contains several articles reporting on several notable events in the course of the war, including the capture of the Confederate ironclad "Atlanta", the fall of Vicksburg, and most notably a reprinting of Gen. George G. Meade''s official report on the battle of Gettysburg. Most notable, however, is an article on the progress of adopting black soldiers into the Union army, in part: "The policy of employing colored men as soldiers - so long and so violently resisted ... seems at last to be fairly adopted by the government, and heartily acquiesced in by the people. It is no longer a question whether the negro will fight, or whether the white man will tolerate him as a fellow soldier. [The battles of] Port Hudson and Milliken''s Bend have settled the first point, and Adjutant-General [Lorenzo] Thomas''s emphatic testimony has stopped all debate on the second. ''I was sent ... by the President to organize the blacks of the Southwest into regiments, and I performed my mission without difficulty. The army made no opposition, and the blacks enlisted with alacrity. The able-bodied of entire plantations came en masse and asked to be enrolled. And ... they make first-rate soldiers, in some respects better even than the whites. They are admirably adapted for picket duty ... he hears and sees everything that may be going on around him. He is equally good as a scout. He knows where to look for the guerillas, and how to deal with them when found..." The paper bears folds with slight splitting, minor soiling and toning, and slight chipping at the edges, else very good.
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