They would be true to her, but they would not take the half-pay.
This was contrary to my advice, and to that of other officers; but I now think it was wise.

Nothing less than this would have called the attention of the American people to this outrageous fraud.* * See Appendix.
The same slow forecast had often marked their action in other ways.

One of our ablest sergeants, Henry Mclntyre, who had earned two dollars and a half per day as a master-carpenter in Florida, and paid one dollar and a half to his master, told me that he had deliberately refrained from learning to read, because that knowledge exposed the slaves to so much more watching and suspicion.

This man and a few others had built on contract the greater part of the town of Micanopy in Florida, and was a thriving man when his accustomed discretion failed for once, and he lost all.

He named his child William Lincoln, and it brought upon him such suspicion that he had to make his escape.
I cannot conceive what people at the North mean by speaking of the negroes as a bestial or brutal race.