"During my research, I came across instances where black men stated they were soldiers, but you can see where ` soldier'is crossed out and ` body servant " inserted, or teamster, on pension applications"
22.
In 2004, Coyle played the role of Alcock, body servant to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in " Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time ", playing Jake Gyllenhaal's older brother, the ambiguous Crown Prince Tus.
23.
Many blacks who served the South worked as teamsters, cooks or body servants and built fortifications, often under Union fire, says Paul D . Escott, a professor at Wake Forest University who lauds Jordan's book as " very thoroughly researched " and important.
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They were told, ` You're going to have to say you were a body servant .'" He estimates that, in Virginia alone, a quarter of the state's 59, 000 free blacks remained loyal and 10 percent of the 490, 000 slaves.
25.
Head of the Militia Committee, Republican Senate Preston King, commented in debate, " Nobody would, probably, object to their cooking . " After all, affluent Confederates were already taking advantage of their slaves by bringing " body servants " that would prepare food, build trenches, construct shelters and clean clothes at campsites.
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They helped prolong the war, driving wagons, working as cooks and body servants for front line troops, in factories, building fortifications, playing in regimental bands, tooting bugles, carrying guns in military outfits, and also were enrolled in some cases as regular soldiers, even though that was strictly forbidden by the Confederate government in Richmond.
27.
Among those making this critique were Tom Shales in the " Washington Post " ( " stereotypes on parade " ), Richard Goldstein in " Village Voice " ( " Haven't fags always been consigned to the role of body servant ? " ) and United States Congressman Barney Frank speaking to the " New York Post ".
28.
Some of his soldiers gathered around him, witnessing his last words : " Boys, they have killed me, but never give up the field . " Lying on the ground and wrapped in Col . Corrick's Ford, July 13, 1861 . ) Amos Rucker and his brother Moses Bentley, two body servants from the 7th Regiment, carried Bartow off the battlefield.
29.
According to historian James M . McPherson in 1994, " no black soldiers fought in the Confederate army, unless they were passing as white . " He noted that some Confederates brought along " their body servants, who in many cases had grown up with them " and that " on occasion some of those body servants were known to have picked up a rifle . . . But there was no official recruitment of black soldiers in the Confederate army until the very end of the war ", when it was brought about only by a " desperate shortage of manpower ."
30.
According to historian James M . McPherson in 1994, " no black soldiers fought in the Confederate army, unless they were passing as white . " He noted that some Confederates brought along " their body servants, who in many cases had grown up with them " and that " on occasion some of those body servants were known to have picked up a rifle . . . But there was no official recruitment of black soldiers in the Confederate army until the very end of the war ", when it was brought about only by a " desperate shortage of manpower ."
