No one but you has made that claim. Sherman even referred to it in #30. Keep up!
n arguing that there were some black Confederates, Stauffer draws on at least one ironic source: 19th-century social reformer Frederick Douglass, whose life Stauffer studied for his 2008 book Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In August 1861, Douglass published an account of the First Battle of Bull Run, which noted that there were blacks in the Confederate ranks. A few weeks later, Douglass brought the subject up again, quoting a witness to the battle who said they saw black Confederates with muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets.