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NS is trying to trip you up, #203. We know what you meant. He is well aware that black Confederates fought integrated in the ranks of the volunteer state regiments.

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He is well aware that black Confederates fought integrated in the ranks of the volunteer state regiments.

Not legally, and mostly in the minds of the southron supporters. Of all the southern blacks associated with the confederate army I doubt that more than a fraction of one percent served in combat roles.

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NS is trying to trip you up, #203. We know what you meant.

So I am supposed to know what you meant and not go on what you all said? He claimed there were black regiments, not integrated ones. If he meant integrated ones then virtually every confederate regiment was integrated because virtually every one had blacks, free and slave, along to cook and clean and perform manual labor and take care of the livestock and what have you.

And another question. If the confederate ranks were as integrated as you claim in terms of combat soldiers, then why is it that once the confederate congress finally got around to authorizing black combat troops in March 1865 they were formed into all black units? Why didn't they recruit them and send them to existing regiments to fill out the ranks?