Lincoln's position on black enlistments -- Grant's role in beginning black soldiery -- Benjamin Butler's enlistment of black troops in New Orleans in 1862 -- Generals David Hunter and Rufus Saxton and black soldiers -- Robert Smalls personal adventure -- Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do? -- Sherman marched and proclaimed "land for the landless" -- The cause and consequence of a Union black soldier's mutiny and execution -- Company A of Rhode Island's black regiment: its enlisting, its mutiny, its pay and service -- The Reverend Fountain Brown: alleged violator of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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