[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. :-\

[Grand Old Partisan]

As I mentioned, in April 1861 blacks did indeed volunteer to fight U.S. troops, but none were accepted. Frederick Douglass did say what he did early in the war, but he was misinformed. Anecdotes here and there (and a diary mentioning black rebels fighting off a regiment (1000 or so soldiers, a week before Appomattox -- I don't think so) don not amount to much. Today's neo-Confederates cling to the myth of blacks fighting for the Confederacy because they do not want to admit what the Confederates themselves say they fought for. Just look at the rebel states' declarations of secession and the pro-secession speeches in the secession conventions. It's all about slavery and how they had to fight to keep blacks enchained -- nary a word about the tariff or states rights or anything else.

As for being manacled by rebels and marched south into slavery, you wouldn't be LOL if it happened to you.

[Non-Sequitur]

"We took a lot of negros yesterday. I was offered my choice but as I could not get them home I did not take them" - William S. Christian, an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during the campaign in Pennsylvania.

One of the more disreputable aspects of both confederate campaigns in the North were the habit of taking Northern blacks that they came across and sending them back south.