[Heyworth]

How many of those black regiments were conscripts?

Don't know offhand. How many confederates were conscripts? Do they not count? Do the two-thirds of American soldiers from WW2 who were draftees not count in some way?

Are you going to give another of those great soundbites again, like "Your ancestors were nothing more than a horde of avarice driven lice who infested the Southern states under the auspices of war to line their own pockets."?

[Colt .45]

"Don't know offhand. How many confederates were conscripts? Do they not count? Do the two-thirds of American soldiers from WW2 who were draftees not count in some way?"

Back at ya! But I do have a book documenting the forcible conscription of ex-slaves by Union soldiers on Sherman's March.

"Are you going to give another of those great soundbites again, like "Your ancestors were nothing more than a horde of avarice driven lice who infested the Southern states under the auspices of war to line their own pockets."?

Yeah its called Sherman's March to the Sea and Reconstruction.