[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

"...Entered service as a servant?
I think some of you neo-Conferderates are reaching..."

Yeah, a servant to a field commander (aka his aide). The article refers to the 90,000 black confederate soldiers. They were freemen who fought alongside their white countrymen in integrated units. (Contrast that with the federal armies that segregated the blacks into cannon-fodder units.)
No, The confederate blacks weren't fighting for slavery, any more than most whites weren't; but for their country, homes, and families.

[ravinson]

The article refers to the 90,000 black confederate soldiers.

And by 'soldiers", they of course mean slaves were forced to accompany their masters in harm's way.

[Non-Sequitur]

The article refers to the 90,000 black confederate soldiers. They were freemen who fought alongside their white countrymen in integrated units.

According to the 1860 census there were, at best, about 23,000 free black men of military age in the entire south. Did each of them enlist 4 times?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

90,000 black Confederate soldiers? Somebody should have told these bigwigs of the CSA.

"The day that the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined and disgraced," -Robert Toombs

"If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong" - Howell Cobb.

Once again the words of the Confederates themselves deflate the arguments of their latter day apologists.

[mac_truck]

The article refers to the 90,000 black confederate soldiers. They were freemen who fought alongside their white countrymen in integrated units.

The Negro's Pensions Law established by the Tenn. state legislature provided funds to former slaves who served their masters in the Confederate army. They were NOT freed until the North whipped the South into submission.