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To: x

Sorry, but you should be morem make that much more careful when calling people liars.

There were half a million Freemen/Freedmen in the South, not the whole US.

Look into the history of “Lee’s Campaigns of 1864” also the history of the Tennesse Light Infantry and the Alabama 3d.


45 posted on 04/05/2008 1:01:43 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: MindBender26
Yes, I responded hastily and shouldn't have.

I shouldn't have said that it was a "lie," but I never said that it was your "lie."

It could have been someone else's claim that you were repeating or an honest mistake.

But look, your claim that there were more freedmen than slaves in the US was wrong.

So you come back and say that those freedmen were in the South.

Is that going to make your claim true?

In fact, in 1860, Maryland had the largest free Black population, followed by Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and North Carolina.

According to the census, Connecticut had more free Black people than Florida or Mississippi or Arkansas or Texas.

You can go here and check it out for yourself.

Look into the history of “Lee’s Campaigns of 1864” also the history of the Tennesse Light Infantry and the Alabama 3d.

Are you sure that those were Confederate units? There were Black and White Union regiments from those states.

46 posted on 04/05/2008 1:33:35 PM PDT by x
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