. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . CHAPTER VII MITCHELS campaign to northern ALABAMA—ANDREWSRAID INTO GEORGIA, AND CAPTURE OF A LOCOMOTIVE—AFFAIR AT BRIDGEPORT—SACKING OF ATHENS, ALA-BAMA, AND COURT-MARTIAL OF COLONEL TURCHIN—BURNING OF PAINT ROCK BY COLONEL BEATTY—OTHERINCIDENTS AND PERSONAL MENTION — MITCHEL RE-LIEVED GENERAL MITCHELS division (to which I belonged)of the Army of the Ohio we left at Nashville, ready tomove on an
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . CHAPTER VII MITCHELS campaign to northern ALABAMA—ANDREWSRAID INTO GEORGIA, AND CAPTURE OF A LOCOMOTIVE—AFFAIR AT BRIDGEPORT—SACKING OF ATHENS, ALA-BAMA, AND COURT-MARTIAL OF COLONEL TURCHIN—BURNING OF PAINT ROCK BY COLONEL BEATTY—OTHERINCIDENTS AND PERSONAL MENTION — MITCHEL RE-LIEVED GENERAL MITCHELS division (to which I belonged)of the Army of the Ohio we left at Nashville, ready tomove on an independent line. When the other di-visions had started for Savannah, Mitchel, March i8, 1862,resumed his march southward, encamping the first night atLavergne, fifteen miles from Nashville. The next day wemarched on a road leading by old cotton fields, and felt wewere in the heart of the slaveholding South. The slaves wereof an apparently different type from those in Kentucky, thoughstill of many shades of color, varying from pure African blackto oily-white. The eye, in many instances, had to be resortedto, to decide whether there was any black blood in them. Butthese negroes were
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