To: LS
It is a hard subject to define. Are cooks, drivers and engineers(earth work construction) soldiers? Some may have had uniforms many did not. Many were armed especially supply wagoners. Many blacksmiths in the CSA were black. Are they soldiers?
12 posted on
03/13/2017 11:38:16 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Many blacksmiths in the CSA were black.Would the rest have been whitesmiths?
16 posted on
03/13/2017 12:06:30 PM PDT by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: central_va
It is a hard subject to define. Are cooks, drivers and engineers(earth work construction) soldiers? Ask a CB--a sailor who serves in a US Navy Construction Battalion.
To: central_va
The vast vast majority of black “soldiers” did not carry guns.
26 posted on
03/13/2017 1:32:28 PM PDT by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: central_va
The vast vast majority of black “soldiers” did not carry guns.
I have seen no “average” Confed soldier memoirs that ever mention black soldiers.
29 posted on
03/13/2017 1:48:00 PM PDT by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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