slaves could NOT/did NOT serve in the CSA, as they were NOT free to take the oath of enlistment.
the 100,000+ black men (and NOT a few women, btw!) who served HONORABLY in the PACSA were FREEmen, who were fighting for their families,homes,farms,state & EACH OTHER.
in point of fact, the blacks who served the TRUE CAUSE were just as good as soldiers as their NON-black compatriots-in-arms in the ranks.
the army of dixie was about 20% NON-white.
free dixie,sw
That is simply nonsense. The difference between a laborer in a uniform, who was deliberately NOT given a gun nor trained in firearms because of fear he would revolt, and a soldier is the difference between night and day. The statistics showing ANY percentage of Confederate "soldiers" is highly misleading. The numbers of blacks who actually held a weapon was infinitessimal. See for example (though I know you won't bother to consult real scholarship), Jordan, "Afro Yankees and Black Confederates in Civil War Virginia," just for example.