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To: donmeaker

Throughout the war there were whole companies of slaves fighting.

You’re stuck in dreamland.


257 posted on 02/26/2013 5:14:39 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Yet when the confederate government was considering whether to field them they said no.

Yes, Louisiana’s confederates fielded a unit state of African heritage, that after being occupied the same unit number was turned around and fielded as a US unit. Some of the soldiers may even have been the same.


261 posted on 02/26/2013 9:41:13 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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