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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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