Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of the New York Times, February 10, 1863, 8pp., disbound, VG. From page 2, in stacked column headlines, “THE WAR IN FLORIDA., Negro Troops Against the Rebels, The First South Carolina Volunteers in the Field, Salt Works Destroyed, Capt. Clifton, of the John Adams, Killed by Guerrillas,Official Report of Col. T.W. Higginson. Within the report, Higginson has plenty of praise for the Colored Troops, “The loyal inhabitants look to him, under the President's Proclamation and God's grace, as their deliverer. ... Meanwhile the black gunners, admirably trained by Lieuts. STOCKDALE and O'NEIL, (both being accomplished artillerists,) and Mr. HERON, of the gunboat, did their duty without the slightest protection and with great coolness, amid a storm of shot. ... No officer in this regiment now doubts that the key to the successful prosecution of this war lies in the unlimited employment of black troops. ... It would have been madness to attempt with the bravest white troops what I have successfully accomplished with black ones. ...”
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