The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that have been tried have fought bravely.


At Vicksburg (24 July 1863), as quoted in Words of our Hero: Ulysses S. Grant, edited by Jeremiah Chaplin, Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, pp. 13-14. Also quoted in Ulysses S. Grant, Triumph over Adversity, by Brooks Donohue Simpson, p. 217.

Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that...

The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that...

The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that...

The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that...