From the Richmond Examiner, 2/27/1866, p. 3, c. 3

THE CITY POINT RENDEZVOUS FOR NEGRO TROOPS. – It is apprehended that the selection of City Point as a rendezvous for some fifteen or twenty thousand negro troops, where they are to be paid off and discharged, will have any thing else but a beneficial effect upon the good order and peace of this city during the several months that must elapse before they can all be transported and distributed through the States of their choice, for it is not to be supposed that one-tenth of them have homes. Already City Point is springing into life again in anticipation of the coming of this black host, that will be even more destructive than the locusts of Egypt, eating up every rip and every green thing before them. Greenbacks scattered plentifully among them by the army paymasters will give them free rein for the indulgence of riotous living, and the army discipline and restraint partially removed, will afford them scope for the fullest indulgence. The first swarm is expected from Texas sometime in April or May. – The Children of Israel are already on the ground. Their tents are pitched, their booths opened, and their wares displayed. Already in imagination they see the Southern sky darkened by the black cloud that is rolling onward, and which is to break and rain greenbacks upon their counters.

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