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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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wered :— Very well. You may attack again after dark to-night.Under the noise of your firing, the transports can run by.I will march the soldiers down opposite Rodney, or to someother convenient point where we can cross and take GrandGulf in the rear. Half an hour after Porter had fired his last gun, a steamerran her plank out to land the first detachment of troops atHard Times, on the Louisiana side, above Grand Gulf. Hard Times, so called from its forlorn appearance, wasonly a cluster of tumble-down cabins. Xot a white personwas left, but twenty or thirty delighted negroes welcomedthe troops. The first man to step ashore was Colonel Slack,of an Indiana regiment—a boisterous, good fellow but a life-long democrat, known to nearly all the army for his violentantipathy to negroes and abolitionists. Nevertheless, Slackwas thoroughly devoted to the flag he fought for. As heset foot on shore, a bouncing negress, with her head wrap-ped in a flaming kerchief, seized his hand with both her
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PUBUC LIBRAE. ,6TOB. LENOX ANO isc3.) Thorough Loyalty of the Negroes. 303 own, and shook it long and vigorously in hearty welcome,while she shouted :— Bress de Lord! Bress de Lord I The troops from a dozen transports witnessed the colo-nel s novel and rather embarrassing situation, and cheeredand yelled with delight. Slack, looking extremely sheep-ish, accepted his blushing honors as gracefully as he could,and I never heard of his denouncing negroes afterward. Grant ordered the troops to march down the levee toDe Shroons, also on the west bank, and three miles belowGrand Gulf. He remained at Hard Times to superintendthe debarkation, while Washburne, who had borrowed ahorse from some negroes, rode on ahead. De Shroon s Land-ing had one pleasant balconied white house, shaded by glossymagnolias. It belonged to a French planter, who had de-camped with all his slaves, except one gray-haired, totteringnegro and his wife. Washburne, who found the old couplein their little cabin back of th

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