[stand watie]

the FATAL FLAW in your argument is the PRESENCE in the ranks of 100,000+ CSA soldiers, sailors & marines, "of colour", who had served HONORABLY as VOLUNTEERS from the time the first shots of the WBTS were fired.

do you believe the CSA's black soldiers,sailors & marines were TOO DUMB to know what the war was about & what they were fighting FOR??

pray, give us the benefit of your great knowledge on that single question. a simple YES or NO, stripped of damnyankee blather/nonsense/spin, will be fine.

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

"do you believe the CSA's black soldiers,sailors & marines were TOO DUMB to know what the war was about & what they were fighting FOR??"

Quoting from 'Richmond Burning' by Nelson Lankford, 2003 Penguin books, N.Y.,N.Y., pages 31-33:

"In the trenches east of Richmond, the only African American reporter with the Union Army had his own opinion about these novel 'recruits to the 'southern cause'. He thought they were joining to increase their chances of escaping to the Union side" If the Confederates won these slave 'recruits' would be slaves once again.

"The Libby jailer feared Virginians would sooner lose their wives and daughters than give up their slaves"

What slave would ever fight to remain a slave? Saying slaves fought so the Confederates could continue slavery is just more neo-confederate propaganda.

Elizabeth Van Lew - A really 'southern' hero living in the midst of the slave empire's capitol of Richmond, Virgina.