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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 37

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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 774 upon his resignation, fully his successor, I have endeavored to earnout the work he so well began. I have striven to do so with as nS freedom from personal motives and as much singleness of puroiiL; I could, and I feel very grateful for the confidence with which the Adjutant-General and yourself have honored me. I regard and have regarded the organization of colored troops as a very important social, humanitarian, as well as military measure, and as a providential means of fitting the race freed by this war for their liberty. I have endeavored to impress this view upon the officers appointed to these organizations, and upon the men themselves, showing them that their recognition as men would follow the soldier, and I have no_w, after a year's labor in this department, more hope and more faith than ever in the capability of the negro to make a good soldier and a good citizen^ ~ " servant honor, major, to be, very respectfully, your obedient R. D. MUSSEY, . Colonel 100th U. S. Colored Infantry, Commissioner for Organization U. S. Colored Troops- WAR OF THE REBELLION, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, published by The National Historical Sodety, Gettysburg, PA, 1892, Series III, Vol. IV, Serial No. 125, page 774 37 - (2555)    

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