The Gift of Black Folk
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2. The Revolutionary War
The estimates of the Negro soldiers who fought on the American side of the Revolutionary War varv from four to six thousand, or one out of every 50 or 60 of the colonial troops.
On August 24, 1778, the following report was made of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army:[1]
| Brigades | Present | Sick Absent |
On Command |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 42 | 10 | 6 | 58 |
| Woodford | 36 | 3 | 1 | 40 |
| Muhlenburg | 64 | 26 | 8 | 98 |
| Smallwood | 20 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 2nd Maryland | 43 | 15 | 2 | 60 |
| Wayne | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
| 2nd Pennsylvania | 33 | 1 | 1 | 35 |
| Clinton | 33 | 2 | 4 | 62 |
| Parsons | 117 | 12 | 19 | 148 |
| Huntington | 56 | 2 | 4 | 62 |
| Nixon | 26 | .. | 1 | 27 |
| Patterson | 64 | 13 | 12 | 89 |
| Late Learned | 34 | 4 | 8 | 46 |
| Poor | 16 | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| Total | 586 | 98 | 71 | 755 |
Alex. Scammell, Adj. Gen.
- ↑ G. H. Moore, Historical Notes, etc., N. Y., 1862.
