[agrandis]

Zero, repeat ZERO, blacks fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War.

Well, tell that to my friend who just got through compiling a whole reference book on Black soldiers in both armies of the war. Tell that to the many descendents of Black confederates, who still have photos of their ancestors in Confederate uniforms.

Your prtisanship, plus no doubt your indoctrination in a collectivist, governmental indoctrination camp, has blinded your view of history. Washington warned us about that "spirit of party."

For the record, I am, politically above all else, ANTI-Democrat.

PS: The Radical Republicans are praised and adulated in every governmental textbook *I* have seen. They were called 'radicals" because that's what they were, and their aims are being steadily achieved, mostly these days by the modern Democratic Party.

[Tokhtamish]

If blacks had fought for the Confederacy, the Confederacy would have won. In fact When General Cleburne suggested creating units of freed blacks in 1864 he paid for his suggestion by being passed over for command of the Army of the Tennessee. And everyone knew he should have gotten the job.

The rapid collapse of the Confederate position in the deep South after the fall of Vicksburg is easily explained by the fact that the Union was able to secure it's lines of communication by garrisons of freed blacks.