The Southern papers called them the mutinous Sixth, and said and did every thing to place discredit upon them.
They were reviewed by General Breckinridge, General Alger, Secretary of War, and President McKinley, who applauded them for their fine and soldierly appearance.
COMMENTS ON THE THIRD NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
Of all the volunteer regiments the Third North Carolina seemed to be picked out as the target for attack by the Georgia newspapers.

The Atlanta Journal, under large headlines, "A Happy Riddance," has the following to say when the Third North Carolina left Macon.

But the Journal's article was evidently written in a somewhat of a wish-it-was-so-manner, and while reading this article we ask our readers to withhold judgment until they read Prof.C.F.Meserve on the Third North Carolina, who wrote after investigation.
The Journal made no investigation to see what the facts were, but dwells largely on rumors and imagination.

It will be noted that President Meserve took the pains to investigate the subject before writing about it.
The Atlanta Journal says: A HAPPY RIDDANCE.
The army and the country are to be congratulated on the mustering out of the Third North Carolina Regiment.
A tougher and more turbulent set of Negroes were probably never gotten together before.

Wherever this regiment went it caused trouble.
While stationed in Macon several of its members were killed, either by their own comrades in drunken brawls or by citizens in self-defense.
Last night the mustered-out regiment passed through Atlanta on its way home and during its brief stay here exhibited the same ruffianism and brutality that characterized it while in the service.