Your article does its best to emphasize the constructive roles of Confederate slaves.
But it cannot exaggerate the fact that the basic Revolutionary War promise of freedom for service was withheld until the Civil War’s final weeks — far too little, far too late.
I’ve long argued that one act, if done with enthusiasm in, say 1862, could have changed the war’s outcome.
Slaves don’t get paid a soldier’s salary. Black Confederate soldiers were paid the same as white soldiers. I see you didn’t attempt to refute anything in the article. That’s because facts can’t be refuted. That there were not black soldiers freely fighting for the Confederacy is one of the biggest lies of the war.