In the meantime our boys would when opportunity offered, without being seen, post a man forward to wait in concealment for the adventurous darky. The scheme succeeded and his fate was sealed. A scouting party was sent out, cornered the black sharpshooter in a chimney top a quarter of a mile in front of their lines, and shot him. There are several accounts of black Confederate sharpshooters. This is the appearance of one during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862, firing at members of Hiram Berdan s First U.S. Sharpshooters.
Quotation is from the unit s historian.
I James Maney, colored, was a slave of Dr. James Maney, the grandfather of Lieut. James Keeble, who was an aid on the staff of Gen l George Maney. Dr. James Maney, at the breaking out of the war was the owner of a large plantation 2400 acres in Mississippi, and I was on that plantation at the time. I went with him through all the Dalton campaign, up to the time Hood came into Tennessee. Miss. When Hood returned from Tennessee, I rejoined my master, went with him through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and up into North Carolina, and was with him when the army surrendered at Greensboro, and then came home with him.