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to Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Collier Books reprint edition (New York, 1962), 19–20. On self-pride and the postwar expectations of black soldiers, see also Christian Recorder, Aug. 13, 1864 (Sgt. John C. Brock and Cpl. Abram C. Simms), March 18 (Sgt. John C. Brock and Pvt. Henry C. Hoyle), April 8 (George A. Watkins), 15 (William Waters), May 13 (J. N. Drake), 27 (Cpl. William Gibson and Pvt. W. A. Freeman); New York Times, Feb. 20, 1864, and Brown, Negro in the American Rebellion, 280–81 (Cpl. Spencer McDowell).

89. New York Tribune, June 8, 1863, quoted in Guthrie, Camp-Fires of the Afro-American, 366; Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, 104, 110. For similar sentiments, see New York Times, Aug. 21, 1863, and New Era, July 28, 1870.

90. New York Times, Aug. 17, 1865; Haviland, A Woman’s Life-Work, 314–15. See also Ephraim McDowell Anderson, Memoirs: Historical and Personal (St. Louis, 1868), 400–01; Perdue et al. (eds.), Weevils in the Wheat, 179.

Chapter Three: Kingdom Comin’

1. Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, 217–18.

2. Louis Manigault to “Mon Cher Pere” [Charles Manigault], Nov. 24, Dec. 5, 1861, Louis Manigault Letters, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia; Louis Manigault to Charles W. Henry, April 10, 1863, with enclosure containing description and cropped photograph of a runaway slave, Manigault Family Letters, South Caroliniana Library, Univ. of South Carolina; Louis Manigault, Memos on Overseers, Gowrie Plantation (Savannah River), Feb. 1, 1857, Dec. 20, 1858, and “Visit to ‘Gowrie’ and ‘East Hermitage’ Plantations,” March 1867, Manigault Plantation Records, Southern Historical Collection, Univ. of North Carolina; House (ed.), “Deterioration of a Georgia Rice Plantation During Four Years of Civil War,” 98–117; Ulrich B. Phillips (ed.), Plantation and Frontier: 1649–1863 (2 vols.; Cleveland, 1910), I, 138, 320–21, II, 32–33, in John R. Commons et al. (eds.), A Documentary History of American Industrial Society (10 vols.; Cleveland, 1910–11). See also James M. Clifton, “A Half-Century of a Georgia Rice Plantation,” North Carolina Historical Review, XLVII (1970), 388–415.

3. Rawick (ed.), American Slave, XIV: N.C. Narr. (Part 1), 279; John Houston Bills, Ms. Diary, entry for Jan. 10, 1863, Univ. of North Carolina; New York Times, April 12, 1862 (the incident was related by “C.H.W.,” a Times correspondent writing from Centre-ville, Virginia).

4. Jervey and Ravenel, Two Diaries, 5; Washington, Up from Slavery, 19–20.

5. Heyward, Seed from Madagascar, 135; S. H. Boineau to Charles Heyward, Jan. 6, 1865, Univ. of South Carolina; Jones (ed.), Heroines of Dixie, 196–97; Catherine Barbara Broun, Ms. Diary, entry for Jan. 1, 1864, Univ. of North Carolina. See also Ravenel, Private Journal, 205; Susan Bradford Eppes, Through Some Eventful Years (Macon, 1926; repr. Gainesville, 1968), 168.

6. Rawick (ed.), American Slave, VI: Ala. Narr., 270. For similar recollections, see III: S.C. Narr. (Part 4), 14, and XIV: N.C. Narr. (Part 1), 128. The song “Ol’ Gen’ral Bragg’s A-Mowin’ Down de Yankees” also captured much of this feeling. Newman Ivey White (ed.), North Carolina Folklore (7 vols.; Durham, N.C., 1952–64), II, 543–44.

7. See e.g., Rawick (ed.), American Slave, XIV: N.C. Narr. (Part 1), 86.

8. Macrae, Americans at Home, 133; Rawick (ed.), American Slave, VI: Ala. Narr., 270–71.

9. Wiley, Southern Negroes, 19; New York Tribune, March 2, 1865; Rawick (ed.), American Slave, III: S.C. Narr. (Part 3), 202; V: Texas Narr. (Part 3), 158; XIV: N.C. Narr. (Part 1), 249–50.

10. John Houston Bills, Ms. Diary, entry for Jan. 14, 1863, Univ. of North Carolina; Perdue et al. (eds.), Weevils in the Wheat, 144. See also Stone, Brokenburn, 33, 35, and Rawick (ed.), American Slave, VII: Miss. Narr., 63–64.

11. Rawick (ed.), American Slave, XII: Ga. Narr. (Part 2), 278; V: Texas Narr. (Part 3), 230; II: S.C. Narr. (Part 1), 118–19; Smedes, Memorials of a Southern Planter, 188–89. See also Rawick (ed.), American Slave, II and III: S. C. Narr. (Part 1), 72, 248, (Part 2), 19, 54, 325,