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    My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908
    My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908
    My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908
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    My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908

    By Frederick W. Browne

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    My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908

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      My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908 - Frederick W. Browne

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      Title: My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry

      A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion,

      March 4, 1908

      Author: Frederick W. Browne

      Release Date: April 13, 2010 [EBook #31972]

      Language: English

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      MY SERVICE IN THE U. S.

      COLORED CAVALRY

      A PAPER READ BEFORE

      THE OHIO COMMANDERY OF THE LOYAL LEGION

      MARCH 4, 1908

      BY

      FREDERICK W. BROWNE, Second Lieut.

      1st U. S. Colored Cavalry

      Paper

      of

      Frederick W. Browne,

      Second Lieut. 1st U. S. Colored Cavalry

      of

      Cincinnati, Ohio,

      Read before The Ohio Commandery

      of The Loyal Legion,

      March 4, 1908.

      MY SERVICE IN THE U. S. COLORED CAVALRY

      Having served over two years in a good, hard-fighting infantry regiment, and being encamped at Newport News, Va., holding the dignified rank of Sergeant, I one day met our little fighting Major John G. Chambers who asked me if I would like a commission in the 1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, then forming at Fort Monroe, to which I made answer that I would, and two or three days thereafter I received an order, mustering me out of the service and also an order to report to Colonel Garrard for duty as an officer of the new regiment. Early the next morning, going down to the wharf to embark for Ft. Monroe, I showed to the sentry on the wharf (as my authority for leaving) the order mustering me out. He looked it over and said in a home-sick way, I would give $800 for that paper. I reported to Colonel Garrard, and for the first time saw this officer with whose reputation as a brave and efficient Major of the 3d N. Y. Cavalry I had been well acquainted in the Department of North Carolina. This regiment, being the first colored cavalry regiment, had in its ranks a rather better class of men than the infantry regiments had; some being from the North and some being the outlaw negroes who, in slavery times, had been able to maintain their liberty in the swamps of Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. The

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