The Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette, February, 1849, announces the death at
that place, of Samuel Jenkins, a Colored man, aged 115 years. He was a
Slave of Captain Breadwater, in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1771, and
participated in the memorable campaign of Gen. Braddock.
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Testimony of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, from his speech in Congress on
the imprisonment of Colored Seamen, Sept. 1850:--
* * * "I have an impression, however, that, not indeed in these
piping times of peace, but in the time of war, when quite a boy, I
have seen black soldiers enlisted, who did faithful and excellent
service. But however it may have been in the Northern States, I can
tell the Senator what happened in the Southern States at this period.
I believe that I shall be borne out in saying, that no regiments did
better service at New Orleans than did the black regiments which were
organized under the direction of Gen. Jackson himself, after a most
glorious appeal to the patriotism and honor of the people of Color of
that region and which, after they came out of the war, received the
thanks of Gen. Jackson in a proclamation which has been thought worthy
of being inscribed on the pages of history."