I am free to say, my dear sir, that the case looks as if the confiding colored soldiers had been betrayed into bloody hands by the very government in whose defence they were heroically fighting.
From his autobiography, Douglass expresses his conviction that the Union government failed to protect the Black soldiers who fought for it.
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