Quote for the day

"Between the negroes and the enemy it is war to the death."
"The colored troops have cheerfully accepted... (that) no quarter is to be shown. Those here have not the least idea of living after they fall into (Confederate) hands."
Thomas Morris Chester, the only black correspondent 'embedded' with the Union Army, reporting from Richmond, Virginia in 1865, in an article by David Lander in American Legacy magazine.

A man who knew something about racial and religious wars...