While I had some men who were unprincipled and troublesome, there was not one whom I could call a hardened villain.

I was constantly expecting to find male Topsies, with no notions of good and plenty of evil.

But I never found one.

Among the most ignorant there was very often a childlike absence of vices, which was rather to be classed as inexperience than as innocence, but which had some of the advantages of both.
Apart from this, they were very much like other men.

General Saxton, examining with some impatience a long list of questions from some philanthropic Commission at the North, respecting the traits and habits of the freedmen, bade some staff-officer answer them all in two words,--"Intensely human." We all admitted that it was a striking and comprehensive description.
For instance, as to courage.