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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08307 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 |
| Title | David Hunter to Governor Andrew Curtin regarding the "colored troops" |
| Date | 4 May 1863 |
| Author | Hunter, David (1802-1886) |
| Recipient | Curtin, Andrew |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Requests that several regiments of "colored troops" being raised in PA be sent to the Dept. of the South: "These regiments are very generous, temperate, patient, strictly obedient, possessing great natural aptitude for arms and deeply imbued with that religious sentiment - call it fanaticism such as like, which made the soldiers of Cromwell invincible. They believe that now is the time appointed by God for their deliverance and under the heroic incitement of this faith I believe them capable of showing a courage and persistency of purpose which must in the end extort both victory & admiration. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union General Union Forces African American Troops African American History Religion Slavery |
| People | Hunter, David (1802-1886) Curtin, Andrew (1817-1894) |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Religion; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |