While assisting us they were fighting their own battles, too.
"_The Chairman_.

You were encouraging insurrection against a common enemy with which you were at war?
"_Admiral Dewey_.

I think so.

I had in my mind an illustration furnished by the civil war.

I was in the South in the civil war, and the only friends we had in the South were the negroes, and we made use of them; they assisted us on many occasions.