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Re: Black Confederates at Chickasaw Bayou ?

"The major-general commanding [Twiggs] has decided not to make use of the services of the companies of colored citizens tendered him as an escort for the prisoners of war, and instructs me to communicate his decision to you. He thanks them for the promptness with which they answered the call, and is assured that they will be equally ready upon a more important occasion."

Twiggs probably considered the possibility of retaliation against Confederate POWs in the North.

"The [prisoners] did not like to hear that 'Old Jourdan,' with his company of colored creoles, was to escort them through the city of New Orleans...."
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 15, 1861 (from Mobile Tribune, Sept. 30)

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