Freedom has given us the control of 200,000 able bodied men, born and raised on southern soil. It will give us more yet. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills (1864)
There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills (1864)