Hunter, David, 1802-1886 to Governor Andrew Curtain

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GLC#
GLC08307
Type
Letters
Date
04 May 1863
Author/Creator
Hunter, David, 1802-1886
Title
to Governor Andrew Curtain
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Requests that several regiments of "colored troops" being raised in PA be sent to the Dept. of the South: "These regiments are very generous, temperate, patient, strictly obedient, possessing great natural aptitude for arms and deeply imbued with that religious sentiment - call it fanaticisim such as like, which made the soldiers of Cromvell invincible. They believe that now is the time appointed by God for their deliverance and under the heroic incitement of this faith I believe them capable of showing a courage and persistency of purpose which must in the end extort both victory & admiration.

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