I did not really think they were worth the money that was spent upon them.

But I just found it was different on the battlefield, and they just knew their business and bullets were a part of the show to them." * * * * * NEGRO SOLDIERS.
The Charleston News and Courier says: It is not known what proportion of the insurgent army is colored, but the indications are that the proportion of the same element in the volunteer army of occupation will be small.
On the basis of population, of course one-third of the South's quota should be made up of colored, and it is to be remembered that they made good soldiers and constitute a large part of the regular army.
There were nearly 250,000 of them in service in the last war.
* * * * * THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER--HIS GOOD MARKSMANSHIP--THE FIGHT AT EL CANEY--"WOE TO SPANISH IN RANGE." There has been hitherto among the officers of the army a certain prejudice against serving in the Negro regiments.

But the other day a Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry said enthusiastically: "Do you know, I shouldn't want anything better than to have a company in a Negro regiment?
I am from Virginia, and have always had the usual feeling about commanding colored troops.

But after seeing that charge of the Twenty-fourth up the San Juan Hill, I should like the best in the world to have a Negro company.

They went up that incline yelling and shouting just as I used to hear when they were hunting rabbits in Virginia.