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- The Daily Richmond Enquirer july 7, 1864 report this raid too .
Members of Draper's 36th USCT were accused of raping a Mrs G.
wife of a confederate officer, eleven times. In addition, twenty
five or thirty other females (decorum forbade mentionning their
names) were also violated by these "demons". The Enquirer
urged no quarters for black Union soldiers.. (In Ervin L. Jordan jr
"Black Confederates and Afro yankees in CW Virginia")
- RICHMOND, VA., April 29, 1865. Lieutenant-General GRANT,
Washington:
General Ord represents that want of discipline and good officers in
the Twenty-fifth Corps renders it a very improper force for the
preservation of order in this department. A number of cases of
atrocious rape by these men have already occurred. Their influence
on the colored population is also reported to be bad. I therefore hope
you will remove it to garrison forts or for service on the Southern
coast and substitute a corps from the Army of the Potomac, say
Wright's, temporarily.
.
H. W. HALLECK, Major-General,
Commanding.
OR S1
vol XLVI pt 3
(regiments of XXVth corps was mostly blacks)
- Robert H.Hughes, colored teamster in the employ of the US
quartermaster's department , committed a violent assault on the
person of Lucy B.Watkins, a white woman resident of New Kent county,
Va,
"and did
attempt by force and threats to commit a rape on her person".
Lincoln approved the sentence of death by hanging. RG
153 GCMO 167 june 16, 1864
In her diary, ("Remembering Louisiana 1850-1871") a
young Louisiana girl, Celine Fremaux Garcia described agressions
commited by black soldiers on white women at Jackson. Unfortunely, I
have only text in french. She speak about a girl nammed Carrie
discovered in near woods, seized at home and raped after the passage
of a column of "black soldiers and Mexicans" in the
town and who became crazy. An other young woman, Ada, was raped too
this day but Celine said she have not details on this case. Miss
Garcia said too that "
very few crimes was commited upon young girls during the war..."
Just after the war, Matthew Woodruff , stationed in Pascagoula
(Mississippi) , heard that
" a young lady of the village was brutally outraged by one of the
colored soldier of the 96th USCT." ("The
diary of sgt M. Woodruff , june-december 1865" cited by R.
MItchell in ""The vacant chair")
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