While working outside on a detail at Point Lookout, a young colored
soldier, filled with patriotic enthusiasm, called on us and remarked:
"Hadn't been for us colored troops I don't spec dese here Yankees ever
would whipped you-uns." "Did the colored troops fight much?" "Well, not
'zactly fitin'; but we do de gard duty so all de white soldiers could
fight you, and den it seems like dey had all they could do."