[vetvetdoug]

Companies D and L of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A. were 5% black and is so noted in the history of the regiment. This was one of General Forrests’ and Joe Wheelers’ regiments. So much for cut and dried history.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Company C and D of the first California Volunteer Cavalry was all Latinos. The first bilingual unit in the US Army. It had the lowest desertion rate in the Civil War. They mostly fought Pro-Confederate Indians in the west suffering more arrow wounds than bullets.