There are at the present moment, many colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers but as real soldiers, having musket on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the rebels--Frederick Douglass, Fall 1861--Black Confederates, Barrow,p9
You do know who Frederick Douglass is don't you? Please Walt, don't go defaming your hero's own words now. WGreater words and of the African Americans that served for the Confederacy in defense of the Founders ideals of the Constitution, lincoln wouldn't be worth licking their boots. To defame the great men of all colors that fought for their country all to continue a lie begun by the victors 136 years ago is a disgrace