CHAPTER III.--RECRUITING AND ORGANIZING IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Private Miles O'Reilly's Account of Gen. Hunter's Black Troops--The First Negro Troops in the Field--Gen. Hunter's Humorous Report to Congress--Jefferson Davis declares Gen. Hunter and his Officers Outlaws--Gen. Hunter's suppressed Letter to Jefferson Davis--Miles O'Reilly's Humorous Poem, "Sambo's Right to be Kil't" 145