See also Coffin's _Boys of '61_.] [Footnote 2: Williams, _History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion_, p.

70.] [Footnote 3: Greely, _American Conflict_, I, p.

585.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_., II, p.

246.] [Footnote 5: _Official Records of the Rebellion_, VIII, p.

628.] [Footnote 6: Williams, _Negro Troops_, p.