![]() "Best for us they keep at it," said Joe, shifting in an effort to get all of his six-foot frame underneath a tattered blanket. "Make me feel funny, what with all we going to do and all." "Soon, one morning, death come stealing in your room." ![]() The song of the Negro mule skinners attached to the unit seemed to fit the mood of the camp. It was unusually quiet as the men prepared to bed down for the night. ![]() ![]() We're going to run them niggers right off into the river and drown 'em like rats."Īnd now, on this late June day of 1863, he was in a Confederate camp not far from Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, where a Texas regiment was licking its wounds after fighting against colored Union troops. The first thing Joe did when he caught sight of those colored soldiers wearing blue Yankee uniforms was to stand staring at them with his mouth wide open till the captain rode up behind him and whacked him across the shoulder with his riding crop. ![]()
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