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Re: Preston Roberts, Black servant in Forrest's Ca

The article in The Richmond Planet with the sketch of Roberts can be seen on the website of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, page (image) 2.
I thought it was interesting that the article stated that Roberts was the chief over 75 colored cooks in the Southern Army "with money and authority to buy whatever was needed for his mess, and also authority to "raise" the rations anyway, whether they could be bought or not."

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