 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 886 psl.
...furnished by order of the War Department with clothing, uniforms, arms, equipments, Ac., for euch a force? To the first question, therefore, I reply that no regiment of "fugitive slaves" has been or is being чгganized in this department. There is, however, n fine regiment of persons whose late masters are... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 674 psl.
...&c., without distinction of color. Yet ' Page 188. 3 General Hantcr said : " To the first question, I reply, that no regiment of * fugitive slaves ' has been or Is ln-inj: organized in tbls Department There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 psl.
...on the subject. This being referred to Gen. Hunter by the secretary of war, the general answered: " No regiment of fugitive slaves has been or is being organized in this department. There is, howover, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels — men who everywhere fly... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Wilson - 1890 - 542 psl.
...Congress, and the wide-spread interest which must have been awakened by Mr. WickliflVs resolutious, I prefer sending even this imperfect answer to waiting...comprehensive data. "To the first question, therefore, 1 reply: That no regiment of 'fugitive slav,V has been, or is being, organized in this department.... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - 1991 - 788 psl.
...inquiry as to whether or not he had formed a regiment of fugitive slaves. No indeed, Hunter replied, "No regiment of 'fugitive slaves' has been, or is...department. There is, however, a fine regiment of loyal persons whose late masters are 'fugitive rebels.' " Doubtless this literary gem, circulating... | |
 | Randall C. Jimerson - 1994 - 308 psl.
...Hunter was not authorized to raise troops and then asked Hunter himself to respond to the charges. 'To the First Question therefore I reply that no regiment...has been, or is being organized in this Department," Hunter wrote on June 23. There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters are 'Fugitive... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - 1998 - 772 psl.
...country, and force the authorities either to adopt my Negroes, or to disband them." ' So Hunter wrote: "No regiment of 'fugitive slaves' has been, or is...department. There is, however, a fine regiment of loyal persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels." He said that he did this under instructions... | |
 | Bennie J. McRae, Curtis M. Miller, Cheryl Trowbridge-Miller - 2006 - 132 psl.
...Congress, and the widespread interest which must have been awakened by Mr. Wickliffe's resolution, I prefer sending even this imperfect answer to waiting...that no regiment of "fugitive slaves" has been or is organized in this department. There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters are... | |
 | Stephen V. Ash - 2008 - 299 psl.
...and, when called to account, had defended himself with spirit and wit in a well-publicized letter. "No regiment of 'Fugitive Slaves' has been, or is being organized in this Department," he wrote in response to the secretary of war's inquiry. "There is however, a fine regiment of persons... | |
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To the first question, therefore I reply : that no regiment of fugitive slaves has been or is being organized in this Department. There is, however, a fine regiment of loyal persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels... 
