ROTFLMAO!!!! You guys are never at a loss for a myth du jour, are you?
I find it interesting that a black Confederate soldier was depicted marching in rank with white Confederate soldiers on the Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery....given that you would have us believe that none served in the Confederacy.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/csa-mem.htm
Note in the fifth foto the black soldier just right of center in the back part of the relief.
Dr. Steiner, Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission, observed that Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson’s troops in occupation of Frederick, Maryland, in 1862: “Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number [Confederate troops]. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in the rebel ranks. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc.....and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army.”