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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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To: GOPcapitalist; Grand Old Partisan
[gopcap] I showed you documents over a year ago that demonstrated the Louisiana Guards had received orders and assignments from the Louisiana state militia command.

Why don't you just post a link to the thread where you showed the documents instead of launching yet another one of your patented polemics? So far we only have one poster's photographic evidence , that consists of black confederate troops wearing union uniforms. If you have further proof then lets see it professor.

163 posted on 03/02/2005 3:26:52 PM PST by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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