So they got to serve like what, 3 weeks?
Strange.
I’ve never heard this.
Yep. Proposed in early 1864 when Confeds knew they were screwed.
There are tales that some 100,000 “served” in Confederate Army, and some absolutely did-—almost entirely as cooks, diggers, etc. We can’t come up with any number of black Confederates who carried weapons, but there is a picture of a black artillery battery in Richmond. Most estimates are that of the 1% of slaveholders who were free blacks, perhaps 1% of them may have been allowed to shoulder a firearm.