Army Quote by Frederick Douglass

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but…

— Frederick Douglass

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their…

— Frederick Douglass

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

— Lovell Rousseau

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

“Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. “It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall Brigade [march]…

— Ron Chernow

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

— John A. Logan

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in…

— Anonymous

“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the…

— Karen Abbott