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To: LS

You're exactly right. The Confederates did indeed refuse to accept the Louisiana Native Guards because they were armed blacks. After all, blacks were expressly forbidden to enlist in the rebel forces by Confederate law until March 1865.


117 posted on 03/01/2005 4:27:21 AM PST by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: Grand Old Partisan

And they were forbidden to do so because the thought of armed blacks was anathema to the South. That's why virtually all of the so-called "black confederates" were laborers enticed to work for their freedom . . . not the 'rebel cause.'


118 posted on 03/01/2005 4:31:11 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Grand Old Partisan
You're exactly right. The Confederates did indeed refuse to accept the Louisiana Native Guards because they were armed blacks.

That's a load of garbage. I showed you documents over a year ago that demonstrated the Louisiana Guards had received orders and assignments from the Louisiana state militia command. Yet here you are on another thread and another day, repeating the same old lie as if nothing had changed.

After all, blacks were expressly forbidden to enlist in the rebel forces by Confederate law until March 1865.

Incorrect. They were prohibited from enlisting in the federal units. State units could and did enlist blacks at their own discretion. The first state to do so was Tennessee in June of 1861.

159 posted on 03/02/2005 11:05:41 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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