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  1. Jan 2026
    1. colored persons enlisted by State agents are enlisted as substitutes, and give credit to the States, and do not swell the army, because every black man enlisted by a State agent leaves a white man at home;

      When African Americans where enslaved they were told if they fight for our country, they will have more rights and be freed but almost/ if not all were never freed and had to come back and go back to work for their families.

    2. The policy would later be overruled and freedpeople would lose their right to the land.

      When this was overruled, I wonder what was going through their minds when the overruled this policy, and how they felt when freed people lost their right to the land. Because I feel like if something like that happened now, we would have war/ riot.