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To: Non-Sequitur
Tens of thousands of blacks served the confederate army in support roles.

Support roles are often in the line of fire and serve a very important role in keeping the military machine running.

Does a cook, which is an important part of the machine ("An army marches on its stomach." Napoleon Bonaparte), on a submarine escape unharmed if said submarine is torped?

Your original statement was to imply that "cooks, servants, laborers, and the like" were unimportant, less than honorable roles and now you're trying to weasel out of it with this typical NS rhetoric. Pathetic.

A certain percentage probably did so willingly.

Can you be specific about this "certain percentage" or is this just more of your biased conjecture.

Blacks did not serve legally in combat roles until March 1865.

By that statement, you're admitting that the Confederacy was, indeed, legal?

After all, an illegal entity can't grant legality.

How many times have you blathered that the Confederacy never existed because it was illegal to secede?

You can quit these threads now. You're busted.

Bye-bye, NS. We're gonna miss you......................NOT!

78 posted on 07/29/2008 6:26:31 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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To: cowboyway
Your original statement was to imply that "cooks, servants, laborers, and the like" were unimportant, less than honorable roles and now you're trying to weasel out of it with this typical NS rhetoric. Pathetic.

Hardly.

Can you be specific about this "certain percentage" or is this just more of your biased conjecture.

More than zero and less than a hundred. It disputes those who would claim that, being slaves, none of the blacks supporting the confederate army could be considered to be their willingly, and disputes those like you who apparently think they all were.

By that statement, you're admitting that the Confederacy was, indeed, legal?

No. Legally based on what passed for law in the confederacy.

How many times have you blathered that the Confederacy never existed because it was illegal to secede?

Quite a few. How many times have you insisted that it did because the folks down there believed it did?

You can quit these threads now. You're busted.

ROTFLMAO!

79 posted on 07/29/2008 7:50:44 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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