[SandfleaCSC]

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.

In the North??? Since the slaves in the border states weren't free (Lincoln accidentally slipped up with that Emancipation Proclamation, uh-yeah, that's the ticket) and very few major battles took place in free territory, just how do you rationalize your statement?

[Non-Sequitur]

How does one rationalize facts? It either happened or it didn't, and whenever the confederate army was in the North they sent free blacks that they captured down south back into slavery. It happened during Lee's campaign in Maryland in 1862. It happened in Lee's campaign in Pennsylvania in 1863. It happened when Early went into Pennsylvania and burned Chambersburg in 1864. As it happens the confederates were technically in violation of confederate law. Their constitution allowed for slave imports but only from the slave holding territories of the United States. Those that they kidnapped in Maryland were technically legal since Maryland was one of the slave holding states of the United States. Those abducted in Pennslyvania were not.