[Grand Old Partisan]

As for blacks fighting on the Confederate side, ZERO was a bit much. Yes, here and there a black person fired at U. S. troops perhaps and slaves were certainly corralled into doing trench-digging and whatnot for the rebels, but the fact remains that under Confederate law it was illegal (strictly enforced) for any black person to be in the Confederate Army or in any rebel state militia until the last week of March 1865, when the CSA Congress authorized black soldiers, though none was ever recruited other than slave labor gangs dubbed "companies" and "regiments" at the very end. None fought.

During the CSA invasions of Maryland in 1862, of Pennsylvania in 1863, and of Maryland again in 1864, the rebels brought with them wagonloads of manacles for capturing blacks and dragging them south, probably accounting for any blacks seen marching with the rebels.

The Whig Party disappeared in 1854, replaced by the GOP. Some former Whigs certainly did vote for Bell, but they drifted into the Democratic Party during the war.

Two prominent southern Democrats who remained loyal to the flag to which you pledged allegiance in elementary school were Andrew Johnson and Sam Houston. Far too many Republicans today do not realize that they are parroting Democrat propaganda drilled into them by Democrat history books.

[agrandis]

During the CSA invasions of Maryland in 1862, of Pennsylvania in 1863, and of Maryland again in 1864, the rebels brought with them wagonloads of manacles for capturing blacks and dragging them south, probably accounting for any blacks seen marching with the rebels.

LOL!

But you did spell "parroting" right in your post, and I realized I just misspelled it in another thread. :-\