GwilymT
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2018
- Location
- Pittsburgh
On May 1st, 1863, in reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the raising of black soldiers in the Union Army, the Confederate Congress passed the “Retaliatory Act” which read in part:
“Sec. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court
Sec 5. Every person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such in the service of the enemy, who shall, during the present war, excite, attempt to excite or cause to be excited servile insurrection, or who shall incite or cause to be incited a slave to rebel, shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court.”
Full text of act: http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/39620
Are there any cases, other than massacres such as Ft. Pillow, where white officers of black troops were executed?
“Sec. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court
Sec 5. Every person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such in the service of the enemy, who shall, during the present war, excite, attempt to excite or cause to be excited servile insurrection, or who shall incite or cause to be incited a slave to rebel, shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court.”
Full text of act: http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/39620
Are there any cases, other than massacres such as Ft. Pillow, where white officers of black troops were executed?