The CONFEDERATE? I didn’t know that. Wow that’s pretty crazy, fighting for the side that wanted to keep blacks as a slave. I wonder how that went. I would assume the weren’t exactly in a fighting mood but on the other hand blacks today vote mostly Democrat so maybe they did fight.
So they got to serve like what, 3 weeks?
Strange.
I’ve never heard this.
The Confederate had a different view of blacks than the Union.
There were several all black confederate units and occasionally, black officers and noncoms commanded white soldiers, something that would never happen in the Union army.
Simply as a mater of strategy, they would have been better off to have done that sooner. By that time, the war was all but over.
It could be said they were rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I have read that Lincoln responded to Confederate proposals to enlist black soldiers with something like: Any black man who would fight for slavery deserves to be a slave. I did a quick google search but could not find this quote.