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Quotes from Report of the military services of Gen. David Hunter — David Hunter

1802–1886

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From the beginning I urged upon the Government, in the strongest terms, the enlistment of negro troops, the former slaves of the rebels, not only as adding to the number and efficiency of our own forces, but chiefly on account of its depriving the enemy of just so much labor in their fields.

Report of the military services of Gen. David Hunter (1873)

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