[Drennan Whyte]

Check out the description of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard (CSA).

Your own posts notes that the unit was never accepted for duty with the Confederate military or the Louisiana militia, wasn't supported in any way with arms or equipment, and was generally ignored. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy.

[lentulusgracchus]

That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy.

The salient point is that this black unit existed. In arms.

[matt1234]

Your own posts notes that the unit was never accepted for duty with the Confederate military or the Louisiana militia, wasn't supported in any way with arms or equipment, and was generally ignored. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy.

My purpose was not to provide "a ringing endorsement." It was to disprove mac_truck's statement that "they were NOT soldiers anymore than they were free." They were soldiers, and they were free. And they supported the Confederacy, at least for a time.