"A negro…with a rifle at full cock, leading along a barefooted white man, with whom he evidently changed clothes. General Longstreet stopped the pair and asked the black man what it meant. The Negro replied, "The two soldiers in charge of this here yank have got drunk, so for fear he should escape I have took care of him and brought him through that little town." The consequential manner of the negro, and the supreme contempt witch which he spoke to his prisoner, were most amusing. 

This little episode of a southern black leading a white Yankee soldier through a Northern village, alone and of his own accord, would not have been gratifying to an abolitionist. Nor would the sympathizers both in England and in the North feel encouraged if they could hear the language of detestation and contempt with which the numerous Negroes with the Southern armies speak of their so called liberators." Lt. Colonel Freemantle British Observer