"Its organization was an experiment which has proven a perfect success. The conduct of its soldiers has been such to draw praise from persons most prejudiced against color, and there is no record which should give the colored race more pride than that left by the 25th Army Corps."
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Godfrey Weitzel, (1866), as quoted in ORR Series 1, Volume 51, Part I, p. 1,202
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