[JohnGalt]

Northern Copperhead Abolitionists were more plentiful than the gubmint schools care to admit (much like black Confederate soldiers.) Most were forgotten because Lincoln clamped down on dissent with the full force of the federalis.

Joshua Blanchard was a Boston merchant who spoke eloquently on the importance of simply letting the South go:

...But the harmonious union of the people of this nation, on the principle of general consent, can never be maintained where the sentiments of the two great sections of it are at such irreconcilable variance on the vital question of the right to slavery...The only plan, then, for national reputation, for safety, for justice, and even for humanity, is to give each section an independent government, confirmed to its own ideas of right- that is, peaceable separation from each other.

[fiscally_right]

Black confederate soldiers? Wouldn't any black confederate soldier have to have been a slave? If so... I'm not sure it has any significance.