CHAPTER XXVII.

NEGROES AS SOLDIERS.

1775-1783.

The Negro as a Soldier.--Battle of Bunker Hill--Gallantry of Negro Soldiers.--Peter Salem, the Intrepid Black Soldier.--Bunker-hill Monument.--The Negro Salem Poor distinguishes himself by Deeds of Desperate Valor.--Capture of Gen. Lee.--Capture of Gen. Prescott--Battle of Rhode Island.--Col. Greene commands a Negro Regiment.--Murder of Col. Greene in 1781.--The Valor of the Negro Soldiers. 363