The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Employment of negroes in the army.

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Employment of negroes in the army.

--An officer of direction in the Confederate army writes as follows:

The subject of placing negroes in the army is attracting some attention. The following memoranda shows approximately how many may be made use of without putting arms in their hands. Premising that we have in the field one hundred brigades, allow for each as

Engineer Laborers.	50	5,000
Butchers	5	500
Blacksmiths	2	200
Wheelrights	2	200
Teamsters	50	5,000
Cooks	40	4,000
Hospital nurses and Cooks, etc.	40	4,000
Shoemakers	20	2,000
Total		20,700
To which may be added for the various mechanical departments, under the control of the Government, as laborers, etc.	10,000
And as laborers on fortifications	20,000
Making a total of	50,700

The employment of this number would restore to duty in the field, forty thousand white men.

The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 13, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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