They were married the next day, and I believe that she proved an excellent wife, though she had seven children, whose father was also in the regiment.

If she did not, I know many others who did, and certainly I have never seen more faithful or more happy marriages than among that people.
The question was often asked, whether the Southern slaves or the Northern free blacks made the best soldiers.

It was a compliment to both classes that each officer usually preferred those whom he had personally commanded.

I preferred those who had been slaves, for their greater docility and affectionateness, for the powerful stimulus which their new freedom gave, and for the fact that they were fighting, in a manner, for their own homes and firesides.

Every one of these considerations afforded a special aid to discipline, and cemented a peculiar tie of sympathy between them and their officers.