But for the promptness and pluck of several Atlanta policemen these Negro ex-soldiers would have done serious mischief at the depot.

Those who undertook to make trouble were very promptly clubbed into submission, and one fellow more obstreperous than the rest, was lodged in the station house.
With the exception of two or three regiments the Negro volunteers in the recent war were worse than useless.

The Negro regulars, on the contrary, made a fine record, both for fighting and conduct in camp.
[Illustration: THIRD NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS AND OFFICERS.] The mustering out of the Negro volunteers should have begun sooner and have been completed long ago.
* * * * * WHAT PRESIDENT CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE SAYS.
President Charles Francis Meserve, of Shaw University, says: "I spent a part of two days the latter part of December at Camp Haskell, near Macon, Ga., inspecting the Third North Carolina colored regiment and its camp and surroundings.

The fact that this regiment has colored officers and the knowledge that the Colonel and quite a number of officers, as well as many of the rank and file, were graduates or former students of Shaw University, led me to make a visit to this regiment, unheralded and unannounced.

I was just crossing the line into the camp when I was stopped by a guard, who wanted to know who I was and what I wanted.