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Re: Black Confederates at Chickasaw Bayou ?

"Union Cavalry Corps Reports...

1865- April 5.The brigade made a reconnaissance in the enemys rear, striking their wagon train near Paineville Cross-Roads, capturing 320 white prisoners, 310 colored teamsters..."

That's an awful lot of black teamsters.

I don't believe I've ever read of so many captured at one place.
I'm thinking they might not have been all teamsters.

"On Tuesday or Wednesday following the evacuation of Richmond, on returning from carrying an order from Gen. Rethel Barton, I saw a wagon train guarded by Confederate negro soldiers, a novel sight to me. When within about one hundred yards of and in the rear of the wagon train, I observed some Union cavalry a short distance away on elevated ground forming to charge and the negro soldiers forming to meet the attack, which was met sucessfully, the Union cavalry retreating. Not observing the Union cavalry further, I was preparing to inquire whose wagon train it was. The cavalry charged again, and the negro soldiers surrendered..."

Account of R. M. Doswell, Confederate Veteran , Volume 23, p.404

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