General Stonewall Jackson's Eyewitness Testimony Of Union

Dec 1862; Eyewitness Testimony of Union Physician Louis Steiner, Dr. Lewis Steiner, Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission, observed General Stonewall Jackson's occupation of Frederick, Maryland, in 1862. He wrote: Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number of Confederate troops). These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc.... and were manifestly an integral part of the Southern Confederate Army.
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On December 2, 1859, the day
The town ignored his offer." The entire sad but eye-opening article was in the Washington Times on September 29, 2007, titled "Black Cemetery Doubt Remains" by Richard G. Williams Jr. Mr. Williams is a Civil War historian.
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December 31, 1861; The efforts of Jack, servant of an officer of the Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, stands out as an act of heroism. Jack fought beside his master during the heat of battle. He fell seriously wounded but refused to be evacuated and continued to fire at the enemy. He later died in a hospital of his wounds sustained in the ranks of the Confederate army" (Memphis Avalanche, quoted in Charlotte Western