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March 1865....

Sherman and the Negro Troops.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Savannah, Georgia, says:

General Foster's troops will not, I believe, accompany Sherman in his new campaign. It is pretty generally understood that the latter does not care to have colored troops in his army, and his troops evince a marked dislike to the negroes. Some slight emeutes [french for uprising] have arisen, ending, as might be supposed, unsatisfactorily to the latter. It excites the ire of Sherman's veterans, some of whom are serving a second enlistment and are still in the ranks, to come across a sooty fellow with the chevrons of a sergeant on his sleeve. This is peculiarly offensive to our Western soldiers, and they have not avoided giving evidence of their displeasure. That nothing serious has occurred is fortunate, and attributable, perhaps, to the fact that the apotheosis of the negro soldier in the Southern Department has been suspended of late, or at least made as little conspicuous as possible.

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