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How The Negroes Found and Bled for Freedom's Cause - - Every Yankee Genera! during the war, in his reports, used the stereotyped formula, “The colored troops fought bravely.” But figures do not lie, if Yankee Generals do.
Here is the record, as Secretary Stanton presents it in his report, in summing up the returns of his chief of the Bureau of Colored Troops:
• Whole number mustered in during the war - 169,624
• Mustered out - 86,523
• Discharged for disability - 25,233
• Died - 31,866
• Deserted - 14,887
• Killed in Action - 1,514
• Missing in Action - 1,344
• Transferred to Navy - 369
• Now in service - 12,488
The whole number killed in action during the whole war out of this monster negro army of 169,624, was only 1,514 or less than 9/10s of 1 percent.
The missing - those who got near enough to the front to be taken prisoners— number 200 less while the deserters are more than 10 times the number killed!
And those who died without tasting powder and were discharged because physically unfit for duty, foot up 52,102 - nearly 1/3 of the whole negro army. - [Exchange.]Date(s) of Creation
4/24/1868
