"'He is, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duties of his office by doing and performing all manner of things thereto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all officers, non-commissioned officers and privates under his command to be obedient to his orders as captain; and he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future Governor of the State of Louisiana, or other superior officers, according to the Rules and Articles of War, and in conformity to law. "'In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the State to be hereunto annexed. "'Given under my hand, at the city of Baton Rouge, on the second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. (L.S.) (Signed) THOS. O. MOORE. "'By the Governor: (Signed) P.D. HARDY, Secretary of State. (Wilson: Black Phalanx, p. 194.) [27] De Tocqueville: L'Ancien Regime et La Revolution, p. 125-6. [28] Thomas Westworth Higginson: Army Life in a Black Regiment, pp. 57-8. [29] Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Army Life in a Black Regiment, p. 261. [30] Williams's Negro Troops in the Rebellion, pp. 339-40, quoting the order. [31] Williams's Negro Troops in the Rebellion, pp. 334-6, original order quoted. [32] See pp. 351-6 MS. [33] Wilson: Black Phalanx, p. 211, original order quoted. [34] Campaigns of the Civil War. F.V. Greene. The Mississippi, p. 226 et seq. [35] Williams's Negro Troops in the Rebellion, p. 221, original order quoted. [36] MS. Archives of Massachusetts, Vol. 180, p. 241, quoted in Williams's Negro Troops in the Rebellion, p. 13. APPENDIX.