I have been hearing that for years, and yet there is no documented record of Union troops seeing any, no documents of Southern troops marching with or fighting alongside them. Southern white soldiers were aghast at the idea the North would allow blacks to be soldiers it seems incomprehensible they would then march beside them. Further, there was a huge debate in the South about letting blacks fight for the South and it was rejected. How is it they could be debating something that was already a done deal. There is a lot of data to suggest that Southern army morning reports tended to list anyone in the army or working for the army as being "soldiers" even if they weren't actually in the army. We know a lot of black slaves accompanied the Southern armies to do a lot of the manual labor and some have speculated this may be the error.
Do you consider Fredrick Douglass a credible source? I will try to find his account if you wish...
Go to this site:
http://members.aol.com/neoconfeds/thorwitz.htm
It is about a Black gentleman and the Black soldiers. He said there were 90,000 Black soldiers who fought for the South.
until you do, you'd look smarter to find a new ax to grind.
there are THOUSANDS of CSA pension records marked "coloured". do you think the states were too blind to know what color the CSA veterans, who were receiving those pensions, were???
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