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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
There are numerous first hand accounts from Union Officers reporting armed black troops in the CS Army.
17 posted on 01/21/2014 4:22:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

There weren’t any black CSA units till the end of the War, prior to that, blacks in CSA units were not combatants, nor members of the military. I would not be surprised if blacks attached to CSA took up the arms of fallen members of their units to fight the Northerners. From contemporary accounts of Northerners, many blacks identified as Southerners, though considerable numbers of escaped slaves became Northern camp followers, as well.


47 posted on 01/21/2014 10:27:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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