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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
y accomplishment of these results. On the 28th of December, the Governor wrote to Major-General W. T. Sherman, who had led an army of the United States from the interior of America to the shores d men, from whom we raised two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. This letter to General Sherman requires a simple explanation. General Sherman was a United-States army officer, and enterGeneral Sherman was a United-States army officer, and entertained the prejudice which prevailed to a great extent among that class of gentlemen against the enlistment of colored troops; and, when agents from Massachusetts were sent within his lines to enlistt to the State which they represented. Like a true and gallant soldier, as every one knows General Sherman to be, he wrote to Governor Andrew, expressing his regret for the words spoken in haste, anButler and Banks in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; and had been unfurled where Burnside and Sherman had led in the Carolinas and in Georgia,—a sight was presented which awakened the most patrioti