Excerpt from First Organization of Colored Troops in the State of New York, to Aid in Suppressing the Slaveholders’ Rebellion: Statements Concerning the Origin, Difficulties and Success of the Movement; Collated for the “New York Association for Colored Volunteers”
C’ dangers, and privations Of the war against the rebellion. They are willing to volunteer for the service, upon the requisite assurance that they will be placed under leaders in sympathy with the movement. Indeed, such is their intense enthusiasm and patriotism, that if the assurance can be given them, that upon their enlistment they will be in active service under the command Of major-general John 0. Fremont, your memorialists are confident that a force Of at least could be placed under enlistment within sixty days, forming a Grand Army Of Liberation, swelling in numbers as they pass along, thus giving effectiveness to the Proclamation of January, 1868.
Pledges Of enlistment, conditioned upon these assurances being given, have already been obtained to the number Of names.
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