To: matt1234
Check out the description of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard (CSA). Your own posts notes that the unit was never accepted for duty with the Confederate military or the Louisiana militia, wasn't supported in any way with arms or equipment, and was generally ignored. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy.
To: Drennan Whyte
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy. The salient point is that this black unit existed. In arms.
To: Drennan Whyte; mac_truck
Your own posts notes that the unit was never accepted for duty with the Confederate military or the Louisiana militia, wasn't supported in any way with arms or equipment, and was generally ignored. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy. My purpose was not to provide "a ringing endorsement." It was to disprove mac_truck's statement that "they were NOT soldiers anymore than they were free." They were soldiers, and they were free. And they supported the Confederacy, at least for a time.
397 posted on
12/28/2010 12:23:41 PM PST by
matt1234
(0bama's bunker phase: Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2013)
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