 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 Seiten
...had passed a joint resolution which prescribed that white officers of negro Union soldiers should " if captured be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." This command was never carried out, and the Fort Pillow incident is the only record of cruelty to negro... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - 1905 - 396 Seiten
...commissioned officer or acting as such, who, during the present war shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death or otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court." The law also provided for hanging or shooting colored... | |
 | 1905 - 624 Seiten
...who shall act as a commissioned or noncommissioned officer, commanding negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...enterprise, attack, or conflict, in such service, shall, if captured, be put to death by hanging. SEC. 6. Every person in the service of the enemy, or adhering... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 Seiten
...commissioned officer . . . who shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States . . . shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection,...otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court." A final section provided that the negroes captured should be delivered to the authorities of the States... | |
 | Norton Parker Chipman - 1911 - 550 Seiten
...officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be othenvise punished at the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. Every person, being a commissioned officer... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 590 Seiten
...approved a joint resolution of that body which prescribed that white officers of negro Union soldiers " shall, if captured, be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court."* When these threats were issued by the Confederates the practice of arming negroes had not been formally... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 746 Seiten
...Regiment," Appendix B. acting as such, who during the present war shall command Negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...service against the Confederate States, or who shall volunteer aid to Negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service,... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 470 Seiten
...Negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall volunteer aid to Negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as exciting insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death or otherwise punished at the discretion... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 Seiten
...commissioned officer . . . who shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States . . . shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection,...otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." Yet toward the end of the war Jefferson Davis himself advised the Southerners to enroll their slaves... | |
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That every White person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military... 
