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Ou SERVITEUR PERSONNEL.

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Body Servants
Researched and written by Suzanne Parfitt Johnson
One hundred and fifty years after the American Civil War, historians, both professional and amateur, continue to write interpretations of its battles and the tactics of its leaders. Collections of private letters between soldiers and loved ones, being published for the first time, make it easier to understand the
war’s impact on civilians. One aspect of that war which seems to have been virtually ignored is the individual stories of African-Americans who supported the Confederacy as body servants. These Black Confederates (a term applied by author Charles Kelly Barrow) included slaves as well as ‘free men of
color,’ and numbered between 30,000 and 50,000 during the course of the war. Little has been written, however, about these often heroic individuals who served in a capacity of valet to the soldiers who fought in the war. [Segars, J.H. and Charles Kelly Barrow, compilers/editors. Black Southerners in
Confederate Armies. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2001, i.]
Most Confederate officers were accompanied and served by a body servant – generals, such as Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg of Columbia, often by two. Privates might join together, pool their resources, and have one body servant to serve three or four of them. The duties of the body servant included tending
to his soldier’s horse, cooking, laundering, and, in general, anticipating his “every want” and performing unpleasant tasks. If his master were ill or injured, he served as nurse. During a battle, he was expected to remain in the rear with the wagons, guarding his soldier’s personal property. He might, however, if a battle lasted more than a few hours, take his soldier something to eat and fill his canteen during a lull in the battle. As rations became scarce, he might forage for food for both his master and himself.