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DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], July 2, 1864, p. 1, c. 1
Ottawa Indians Captured.—The Yankees have drawn upon all the nationalities of the world for soldiers to fight their battles. The Petersburg Express says we have captured from their armies, not only the genuine Yankee, but the unadulterated African, the Englishman, the Frenchman, the Scotchman, the Irishman, the Dutchman, the Italian, the Swiss, and these in no small numbers, as all who have seen or conversed with the prisoners can testify to. And we have reason to believe that there is a considerable sprinkling of the Chinese element in the Northern army, as well as of other nationalities not mentioned above. But they have a new source of strength—the Indians of the Northwest. On Saturday a batch of these warriors, belonging to a Michigan regiment, were captured, while making a charge upon our lines. They belong to the Ottawa tribe, and are real gingerbread chaps. Their long, straight, black hair, their dusky countenances and stalwart forms, attracted no little attention from our citizens. They speak English as well as most of the soldiers in the Yankee army, and say they are fighting the battles of the North because they believe the North to be right. They take their captivity quietly so far, but the long confinement before them, will doubtless work ill to both body and mind.
Vicki Betts
Ottawa Indians Captured.—The Yankees have drawn upon all the nationalities of the world for soldiers to fight their battles. The Petersburg Express says we have captured from their armies, not only the genuine Yankee, but the unadulterated African, the Englishman, the Frenchman, the Scotchman, the Irishman, the Dutchman, the Italian, the Swiss, and these in no small numbers, as all who have seen or conversed with the prisoners can testify to. And we have reason to believe that there is a considerable sprinkling of the Chinese element in the Northern army, as well as of other nationalities not mentioned above. But they have a new source of strength—the Indians of the Northwest. On Saturday a batch of these warriors, belonging to a Michigan regiment, were captured, while making a charge upon our lines. They belong to the Ottawa tribe, and are real gingerbread chaps. Their long, straight, black hair, their dusky countenances and stalwart forms, attracted no little attention from our citizens. They speak English as well as most of the soldiers in the Yankee army, and say they are fighting the battles of the North because they believe the North to be right. They take their captivity quietly so far, but the long confinement before them, will doubtless work ill to both body and mind.
Vicki Betts