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To: LS

The closest that blacks ever got to actually carrying arms for their Confederate masters was in late March 1865 when some black laborers drilled in Richmond, but without weapons.


119 posted on 03/01/2005 4:40:24 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

Yes, that matches what I've read of the Virginia blacks "drafted" into the Confederate army. Indeed, the CSA Congress debated the issue from 1864 onward and steadfastly refused to arm blacks.


120 posted on 03/01/2005 6:20:21 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Grand Old Partisan
The closest that blacks ever got to actually carrying arms for their Confederate masters was in late March 1865 when some black laborers drilled in Richmond, but without weapons.

There you go fibbing again. Over a year ago I showed you documentation that (1) the Richmond troops were reported in the newspapers to have performed an arms drill on the streets and (2) one of their units engaged in combat a few weeks later at Amelia Courthouse. Yet here you are on another thread and another day repeating the same old fib as if nothing had changed.

162 posted on 03/02/2005 11:25:50 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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