Identifier: boysof61orfoury00coff (find matches)
Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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pyour streets with fire, and close the history of Georgetown. Ifyou seriously intend any such business, I advise you to removethe women and children. The regiment marched the next morning with loaded mus-kets. The citizens beheld their negroes sheltered and protectedby a forest of gleaming bayonets, and wisely concluded not toattempt the recovery of the uncertain property. The day after its arrival in Nicholasville, a large, portlygentleman, lying back in an elegant carriage, rode up to thecamp, and making his appearance before the Colonel, intro-duced himself as Judge Robertson, Chief Justice of the Stateof Kentucky. I am in pursuit of one of my boys, who I understand is inthis regiment, he said. You mean one of your slaves, I presume ? Yes, sir. Here is an order from the General, which youwill seo directs that I may be permitted to enter the lines andget the boy, said the Judge, with great dignity. I do not permit any civilian to enter my lines for any suchpurpose, said the Colonel.
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o E-■ 1862.) INVASION OF KENTUCKY. 12. The Judge sat down, not greatly astonished, for the reputa-tion of the Twenty-Second Wisconsin, as an abolition regiment,was well established. He began to argue the matter. Hetalked of the compromises of the Constitution, and proceededto say: — I was in Congress, sir, when the Missouri Compromise wasadopted, and voted for it; but I am opposed to slavery, and 1once wrote an essay on the subject, favoring emancipation. Well, sir, all that may be. If you did it from principle,it was commendable; but your mission here to-day gives thelie to your professions. I dont permit negro-hunters to gothrough my regiment; but I will see if I can find the boy, andif he is willing to go I will not hinder him. The Colonel went out and found the negro Joe, a poor, half-starved, undersized boy, nineteen years old. He told his story.He belonged to the Judge, who had let him to a brutal Irishman for $50 a year. He had been kicke

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