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Good afternoon.

So you are telling me that the information that follows is incorrect?

"Shortly after the surrender of Fort Sumter by Major Anderson in April of 1861, a company of armed, colored soldiers was seen marching through Charleston, South Carolina. (16)

A company of free black men offered their serviced to the Governor of Tennessee as soldiers. Soon afterwords in June of 1861, the governor accepted into state service all male persons of color. (17)

The 1st Louisiana Regiment of Native Guards was a military unit composed of free black men. They were organized in 1861 and early 1862. (18)

In 1865, the Confederate Congress authorized the raising of black regiments to fight in the Army of Northern Virginia. This measure was too little, too late to help General Lee."

I think that you are the one who is choosing to be wrong. Bedford Forrest had black cavalrymen in his units. You belittle their sacrifice with your comments.

Michael Frazier

WELL SAID!

ONE of the "DY coven" members actually said some months ago that the BLACK vets were TOO STUPID to understand WHAT they were fighting for!

free dixie,sw

1) Seen by whom? Some free blacks did indeed try to join the rebel army and even tried to drill together, they were not accepted into the Confederate.

2) Some free blacks did indeed offer their services to the rebels at the beginning of the war, but none were accepted. The Governor of Tennesse DID NOT authorize blacks in the rebel army, in June 1861 or any other time. Please provide a link to information indicating that he did. Please provide a link to a Confederate order of battle listing them. In any case, blacks in the rebel forces were expressing banned by Confederate law until March 1865.

3) Free blacks in Louisiana did indeed form two regiments for the Confederacy, but the rebels refused to accept them so they joined the Union Amry when General Butler captured New Orleans. If you want to count them as rebels, knock yourself out.

4) None of those blacks who were formed into rebel companies at the end of the war were ever armed, even in drill, and none saw combat.