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Originally Posted by Battalion  You mean we're not going to believe Richard Taylor?...and what the records show? | I like Richard Taylor and enjoyed his book when I read it. I doubt he took that story about the happy USCT prisoners too seriously. In the book, he is trying to make nice with the blacks in the South from 14 years after the war -- as is obvious from the rest of the paragraph.
But I was really referring to your imagining that the POWs were not watched and guarded. You have no idea if they were or not.
Tim
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, 1740-1824, Revolutionary War soldier, one of the authors of the US Constitution in 1787, speaking at the South Carolina Ratifying Convention in 1788.
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