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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 26
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UNION AUTHorITiE8
•rtl of my predecessor, Maj. <; j s, Cnl. comini^i
<•<• Ext II Special Kidd Orders S-< “I"1 JLrtment of the < umberland, 1803.) Maior^.!!' Seville, and uponjJijUlt^^ “•<*
jatviwmustyrtuiLLdlreerf'jty^doredr^TT^ withMaj‘lrjtcarns in the organize!ioiTof 1
roopa.
AT THE OUTSET.
Major Stearns, on report ing at Nashville to Governor Johnson with whom he was ordered to co-operate, found that the raising of “j"-} troops and suspidUrr^-
influential loyal Tennesseeans, ami some time elapsed Before hiTrnas moas relations were established lietween Major Steams and those potlemen. By the last of the month, however, the work began.
WHAT HAD BEEN DONE.
In July, 1863, General Roseerans announced his policy of raising ntimvntsof colored laborers and also made provisions for the proper treatment and payment of colored employes in the staff departments it the army and of ofliet is" servants. (Seo General Orders, No. 172, If adqnarters Depart meat of t he Cumberland.) Under this policy an oatnining board had liecn constituted, before which had appeared a luge number of officers ami enlisted men. A tabular result of t ns totwd'sexamination is annexed. .. c
One regiment had been raised??"the present 1 wolf th I • • )v Troops, then named the Second Alabama. I his reP1."?"? theremuants Wmposedof laborers upon fort itlcations about Niudn i <, rvj(T Jt -T'he large force impressed in tin* summer of ■- „_t upon the
'T“*not come within the province of thia report ”' t.jV(S| special fluent which this lxxly of men while '“''''"T? [^Department. H Wu upon this matter have lioen made tot n‘ ll(| jrres|K)nslblc
^uflicient tosav that the change from theirregjtu ^ere was Jttment they m-eived as lab<.rers to that they had
RHiteful to them. .. R Stansbury. 1 •
,,U'U were mustered in by ('apt > *' jepartnicut. .
distant commissary of musters ‘7se<<-