Seventy-ninth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 183 Eighth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 115 Fourth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 102 Thirteenth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 86 Seventh U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 84 Twenty-third U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 82 Sixth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 79 Fifth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 77 Twenty-second U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 70 First U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 67 Forty-ninth U. S. C. T. Total Killed, 59 Sometimes a comparison will illustrate better than figures alone. I give a single instance: Every one has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, at Balaklava. I will put beside it a Black Brigade of about the same number of men. Here they are: Duncan’s Brigade, comprising the Fourth and Sixth Regiments at New Market Heights, Had 683 Lost 365 Percent 53.7 Light Brigade, Balaklava, Had -673 Lost 247 percent 36.7 ──── ──── ──── Excess in Duncan’s Brigade, 10 118 17 Sanford B. Hunt, M. D., late surgeon of U. S. Volunteers, made an exhaustive research into the capacity of the Negro as a soldier. As to his— 1. Aptitude for drill. 2. Capacity for marching. 3. Endurance of fatigue and hunger. 4. Powers of digestion and assimilation. 5. Immunity from or liability to disabling diseases. All of which points are treated with great detail, and summed up as follows: “For the purposes of the soldier he has all the physical characteristics required, his temperament adapts him to camp life, and his morale conduces to discipline. He is also brave and steady in action. In all subsequent wars the country will rely largely upon its Negro population as a part of its military power.” Under the act of Congress passed July 12, 1862, the President of the United States was authorized to have prepared, with suitable emblematic devices, Medals of Honor to be presented in the name of the Congress to such soldiers as should most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierly qualities. So chary has the Government been in their issue that the award has not reached two thousand among the three millions of volunteers and regulars in the Army and Navy. So that these medals are more rare than the “Victoria Cross” of England, the “Iron Cross” of Germany, or the “Cross of the Legion of Honor” of France. I copy the list of those issued to Negro soldiers as they stand upon the records, that is, in the numerical order of the regiments to which the recipients belonged. It will be therefore understood that this order does not indicate priority of time or degree of excellence.