“The man who says the negro will not fight is a coward . . His souls is blacker than the dead faces of these dead negroes, upturned to heaven in solmen protest against him and his prejudices.”

- Major General Benjamin F. Butler
Butler has just witnessed the gallant fighting of black soldiers in the defense of Richmond in Septembet 1864.

Cited in Soldiers Blue and Gray, Robertson: p. 34.