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One of the characteristic features of our picket duty on the Rappahannock, was the great number of contrabands who came through our lines. Squads of gray-headed old negroes, young negro women and children, carrying in bundles all their worldly store, constantly applied for permission to enter the lines on their way to the north.
On another occasion the regiment went to Hertford, where they captured large quantities of cotton, tobacco, finished carriages, and buggies, several thousand feet of lumber, several mules, and forty contrabands.
What I have said of the proportion of free colored persons to the whites in the District is from the census of 1860, having no reference to persons called contrabands nor to those made free by the act of Congress abolishing slavery here. The plan consisting of these articles is recommended, not but that a restoration of the national authority would be accepted without its adoption.
Have no fears if you hear movements just beyond you; there are a couple of contrabands here who go with us. Here's a ration of tobacco for the men when they wake, and a gallon of whisky, which you must serve out gradually." Revived by this stimulating news quite as much as by the whisky, Barney and his three comrades followed Jones to the boats.
"Why dem Yankees, ob course dem dat cotched Mars Clayt." The Federal admitted they were "Yankees," but that now Jack had no master, that he was free. "Is dat so?" Then scratching his head musingly, Jack said at last, "I don know 'bout dat what you gwine do wid me, anyhow; what yer want?" He was told that he must go as a prisoner to headquarters first, and then dealt with as contrabands of war.
I found the Harris Light occupying Camp Palmer, on Arlington Heights, the confiscated property of the Rebel General Robert E. Lee. On arriving in camp I found that the papers from Washington contained a letter of Secretary Seward, directing General McClellan not to return to their former owners contrabands in our lines.
So the tone of the army chiefs changed, Congress forbade the rendition of fugitives, and Butler's "contrabands" were welcomed as military laborers. This complicated rather than solved the problem; for now the scattering fugitives became a steady stream, which flowed faster as the armies marched.
He had a plausible speech and a distorted imagination, and might be called a demagogue among darkies. He bore an ill physiognomy, that of one "fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." He was disliked by the other contrabands, and had been refused admission to their Church, which he wished to join in order to get up a character.
A woman is not of course fit to be a housekeeper because she is a woman of good education and refinement. "2d. If she were, a family with young children in it is not the proper place to establish a school for untaught contrabands, however desirable their training may be.
The advance to Yorktown A thunder storm "Reliable contrabands" Facing the enemy A strong position The Union line A rebel welcome Digging On picket A dreary country An enterprising planter Active work Battle of Lee's Mills Charge of the Vermont brigade Progress of the siege Ravages of disease A front seat Short supplies The rebels withdraw Entering the strongholds Infernal machines March to Williamsburgh Victims of disease.
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