[LS]

Slaves were offered their freedom in return for signing up. See Jordan, "Afro-Yankees and Black Confederates in Civil War Virginia," Virginia University Press. Moreover, there were some---though not many---"free men of color" still in Virginia on the eve of the Civil War who could sign up.

[stand watie]

IF you say SOME slaves were offered their freedom to enlist, i'll agree.

BUT those FEW were the EXCEPTION rather than the rule.

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