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To: cowboyway
But you're dismissing the fact that the Confederate Army didn't segregate the blacks and the Union Army did. Why?

Well that's a silly question. If the confederate army had segregated blacks out of their units then who would do the cooking and the washing and take care of the livestock?

It's interesting to note that when the confederate congress finally got around to allowing blacks to be enlisted and conscripted into combat roles in March of 1865 the few units they managed to raise were segregated into all black outfits. What changed?

695 posted on 07/17/2006 6:46:55 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
actually, you are not only WRONG, but you KNOW you are wrong.

at the BEGINNING of the WBTS, there were THREE "all black" CSA units (these were STATE MILITIA UNITS. two of the units had GRANDSONS of men, who fought in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson.), with BLACK, elected, officers. (at least five sets of OFFICER's SERVICE RECORDS still exist. the others have "conveniently disappeared" from the Archives.

by 1862, MOST large CSA units were DESEGREGATED in the CSA forces, with essentially EVERY job open to ALL, regardless of skin color.

otoh, in the union military, Blacks served in MOSTLY "unskilled labor" jobs ( the BRAVE 54th MASS IN BDE being the ONLY exception i can think of, offhand.), FAR from direct combat, under white officers & at HALF pay, because the union high command DEVALUED their service and did NOT trust the Black soldiers to "stand & fight".

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697 posted on 07/17/2006 7:59:14 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Non-Sequitur
.enlisted and conscripted into combat roles in March of 1865 the few units they managed to raise were segregated into all black outfits. What changed?

It's obvious, bonehead. Training schedule.

710 posted on 07/18/2006 6:50:14 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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