mac_truck:
"More information about this doctored photo and the revisionists responsible HERE " Thanks, FRiend!
Wouldn't you know, I was just hoping to give the devil his due, showing actual black Confederate soldiers, however temporary they proved, and however disrespected by Confederate authorities.
Now turns out the photo itself is fake, just like most everything else claimed by pro-Confederates.
Lesson learned.
Actual 1864 Union Army photo from Fort William Penn, Philadelphia, used to create recruiting poster:
This is the 1864 Union Army recruiting poster created from the photo above:
And here is a 2004 fake pro-Confederate photo purporting to show 1st Louisiana Native Guard in 1861, but actually just cropped from the original photo above:
You are still going on about how many black soldiers were on each side of this thing. Yes, let's focus on that trivia instead of the larger question of why the Union refused to let the South leave. Why the Union was fine with Slavery, so long as it was under their control.
How about you address that point? Also your arguments about revenue are so much crap. All of New England shipping and economic interests were at threat because of lower duty Southern ports.
Not only did the FedGov lose a tremendous amount of money from an Independent South, The New England Shipping interests and warehouses would have take a massive hit on their vigorish, and New England factories would have lost major chunks of their business.
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I always used to wonder why people thought the Union blockade was essential to winning the war. When I was younger, I never understood the point of it. Presumably all the men who would fight were already in the South, and Presumably they had enough guns to do it, so what did the blockade do except just annoy people?
Now I understand exactly what the blockade did. It kept those Southern ports from financially massacring New England ports. The Blockade was ESSENTIAL to winning the war, because once Europe started seeing real economic gains from trading at those southern ports, there would be no putting that economic genie back into the bottle.
The only way possible for the Union to win was to make sure European business interests never saw those profits from trading at Southern ports. Thus the Blockade was absolutely necessary.
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I found out a long time ago that the Union didn't launch a war over slavery. I have since come to realize that the Union launched a war because of money. It was the potential loss of Massive amounts of money that made the leadership decide an independent South was a threat to their livelihood.
And so they propagandized the slave issue to obfuscate their real reasons for sending a massive invasion force. No one would have fought so that rich people could continue to make large amounts of money, so they needed an emotional hook.
The war was about money.
Okay, now you can go back to your "We had more black soldiers than you did" distraction.