GDG- RE: Black Officers in the Civil War

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Hi  David!   Chester was a brigadier general of the Louisiana Militia after the war.  Did he actually serve during the war?  I knew he was a recruiter (but I believe he quit that because the US army would not allow Black officers.)   He then went on to be the only black correspondent for a major newspaper during the war.  He was with the Union troops when they marched into Richmond. 

Is the other woman you were speaking of Susie King Taylor?  I have her book, but can't put my hands on it right now. 

Paula
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> I believe that one African American officer was T. (Thomas) Morris 
> Chester, an African American journalist in Philadelphia before and 
> during the war, and a recruiting agent for the 54th and 55th 
> Massachusetts for awhile, as well as an officer in a USCT unit at the 
> end of the war. 
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> The war ended before plans with either Harriet Tubman or this woman (if 
> they aren't really the same plan)could be put into effect. 
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> David G. Smith 
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