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McCullough’s report is interesting. An officer that participated in the fight at Milliken’s Bend came through to-day. He states the most of the troops engaged against us were negroes – 4,000 in number – who were cut down and killed to the number of from 1,000 to 1,500. Some 60 or 70 came in and gave themselves up, and declared their willingness to return to their masters. They will be tried according to our laws. A few Yankee commanders of these sable troops were taken at the same time, who are said to be miserable wretches and cannot look a white man in the face. They ought to receive the same treatment meted out to the negroes, which, of course, will be death.

[reprinted from the Galveston News]
Tri-Weekly State Gazette [Austin, Tex.] June 23, 1863 – link to original (poor copy)

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Last Sunday Gen. Henry E. McCulloch attacked at Milliken’s Bend, one regiment Yankees, and a brigade of negroes.
The negroes were uniformed and equipped – The loss of the enemy in killed was fully two hundred and fifty. We captured sixty negroes, and one Yankee Captain. He has since disappeared. The balance of the Yankees, and soldiers of African descent ran to their gunboats. Our loss was one man. He was a Texan. He was first wounded, and while being carried from the field, a shell blew his head off.

[quoting the Houston Telegraph]
The State Gazette [Austin, Tex.] June 24, 1863 – link to original (poor copy)

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The very fiendishness of the abolitionists in enticing the negroes into their ranks and putting arms in their hands will be, we doubt not, properly rewarded. The horrors which they so fondly hoped would be visited upon Southerns through negro insurrections are about to be turned upon their own heads. A monstrous sin against high Heaven cannot be committed with impunity. Retribution is as certain as God is justice. Whatever may be the limits of the abuses of slavery on the part of Southerners – whatever may be the limit of the punishment which the Great Judge above may assign to us – one thing is certain, the motive which actuates the abolitionists in this struggle springs only from hate, malignity, lust of power, intolerance, vengeance and diabolism.

[quoting The Mississippian of June 21, in reference to Banks’ assault on Port Hudson – but no doubt, sentiments would be the same about any black men in uniform]
Tri-Weekly State Gazette [Austin, Tex.] July 4, 1863 – link to original (a poor copy).