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Well, I wanted you to explain where it was a "habit" for the Confederate Army to do that. Early traveled to fast and light for any significant number to be brought back in 1864 in Chambersburg, if any at all were brought back. During Lee's 1863 campaign, a few were brought back as spoils of war. That makes one valid example of slaves taken as spoils of war from free states. One example is not a habit.

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Here is a link to an article from Nort & South Magazine. In addition to providing details on the abductions during the 1863 Campaign, it also details abductions made during 1862 and I have also read accounts of abductions during Early's buringing of Chambersburg in 1864 which was not the lightening raid you mentioned but a serious campaign trying to draw Grant back north. Like I said, I'm not saying that every black person was abducted but it happened frequently enough.