Racial tension between white soldiers and USCT

gary

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I'm reading Echoes from the Boys of Company 'H'. It is a collection of letters from the 100th New York.

Anyway, some men get drunk and out of control. The USCT are serving as the provost and they arrest one man. His comrades rush to liberate him and more provosts appear as reinforcement. The men grab bricks and sticks with which they pelt the provost. It would not do to have a black man place his hands on a white. As another regiment join the rowdies, the USCZT provosts fire into them, injuring one man (who lost his leg). Engraged, the whites retreat to retrieve their arms. Their officers draw their swords and hold the men back.

To solve it, the provost is told by the officers to order the USCT back to their quarters and use only white soldiers as provosts. He does.

Anybody know of any other incidents like this among Union soldiers? I'm aware of USCT as guards for prisoners and that the Confederates resented them but had no say in the matter.
 
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