[lentulusgracchus]

That's hardly a ringing endorsement of black service in the Confederacy.

The salient point is that this black unit existed. In arms.

[Drennan Whyte]

The salient point is that this black unit existed. In arms.

Without any sort of official sanction at either the state or the national level then did it really exist? A group of free blacks may have organized themselves and called themselves a regiment, but the state refused their service and do did Richmond. That sounds more like wishful thinking than an actual army unit.