[Jed Eckert]

You have your heroes and we have ours:

"Blacks fought for South but for states' rights, not slavery" by Walter Williams

Walter Williams: Accounts about black rebel troops draw fire

[central_va]

Williams wrote that in 1969. Amazing.

[DoodleDawg]

You have your heroes and we have ours:

And it's amazing that with all those bazillion black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy that after the war the Southern states chose to thank that service by implementing a set of laws known as the Black Codes that returned every Southern black to as close a condition of slavery as was possible. Even those who had been free for generations. Why was that? Did you blame the black soldiers for the loss or something?

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong." - Gen. Howell Cobb

They did, and it was.