Dr. Steiner also said that the officers and men of the Army of Northern Virginia were filthy and repulsive.
More from Dr. Steiner:
"About nine o'clock two seedy-looking individuals rode up Market street as fast as their jaded animals could carry them, Their dress was a dirty, faded, gray, their arms rusty and seemingly uncared for, their general appearance raffish, or vagabondish. They shouted for Jeff. Davis at the intersection of Patrick and Market street, and then riding to the intersection of Church and Market, repeated the same, strange, jubilant shout. No one expressing an opinion, as to the, propriety, or impropriety this proceeding, they countermarched and, trotted down the street. Then followed some fifty or a hundred horsemen, having among them Bradley T.Johnson; soi-disant Colonel C. S. A. These were received with feeble shouts from some secessionist sympathizers. They said, "the time of your deliverance has come." It was plain that the deliverance they meant was from the rule of law and order...."
"A dirtier, filthier, more unsavory set of human beings never strolled through a town—marching it could not be called without doing violence to the word. The distinctions of rank were recognized on the coat collars of officers; but all were alike dirty and repulsive. Their arms were rusty and in an unsoldierly condition. Their uniforms, or rather multiforms, corresponded only in a slight predominance of grey over butternut, and in the prevalence of filth. Faces looked as if they had not been acquainted with water for weeks: hair, shaggy and unkempt, seemed entirely a stranger to the operations of brush or comb. A mottlier group was never herded together. But these were the chivalry—the deliverers of Maryland from Lincoln's oppressive yoke..."
"Outrages were committed on the National flag whenever one fell into the hands of the soldiers. These simply strengthened the Union feeling, and made the men and women of Frederick more attached than ever to the National cause for which their fathers had fought and died. Stauncher, stouter, stronger did Unionists in Frederick grow with each passing hour. We were conquered, not enslaved—humiliated greatly with the thought that rebel feet were pressing on our soil, but not disposed to bow the knee to Baal. An attack on the Examiner Printing Office, being anticipated, a small guard was placed at the door. About nine o'clock, P.M., a rush was made on the guard by some of the Southern soldiers, the door was driven in and the contents of the office thrown into the street. W. G. Ross, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Frederick, called on the Provost-Marshal, who soon arrived with a strong force, suppressed the riot, and, having obliged the rioters to return every thing belonging to the office, put them in the guard-house. During the continuance of this disturbance, the oaths and impre- cations were terrific. Every one in the neighborhood expected that a general attack would be made on the Union houses. Fortunately, a quiet night ensued."
Several young ladies were standing in front of the house of one of our prominent citizens, when a rebel officer rode up and, halting his horse, said, "Ladies, allow me to make you a present. This is a ring made from the bone of a dead Yankee."
A gentleman, near the curb, seized the article before the officer had finished speaking and handed it to the ladies, who quickly answered, "Keep your present for those who appreciate such pres- ents." The only reply of the chivalry was, "Ah! I supposed you were a Southern ladies!" This incident is instructive."
Dr. Steiner thoroughly disapproved of the CSA and its soldiers. On the other hand, he was a proponent of arming blacks in the service of the USA. His comments on blacks n CSA service should be taken in that light.
It should also be noted that there are no other references to armed black CSA soldiers in Lee's disatrous Maryland campaign. The black soldiers Steiner alludes to disappear entirely from the record. Nor was a single black taken POW at Antietam, nor were any black corpses found in CSA uniform on the ground at Antietam.
There is no proof that more than a handful of blacks willinginf fought for the CSA.
Walt
Between the two of you, we'll eventually be able to get Southern conservatives to abandon the treacherous party of Lincoln just as their fathers abandoned the treacherous democratic socialist party.
Keep posting your hateful lies, boy. You're doing us a world of good.