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"Black Confederates" is a lie on the level of Holocaust denial.

In 1863 General Cleburne of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee circulated a memo arguing that since the South was losing a war of demographic attrition, it's only hope was to enlist blacks. And the only hope of enlisting blacks lay in emancipation. For that memo, he was passed over for command of the Army of the Tennessee. Everyone soldier in that army knew that Cleburne should have been commanding the army, not Bragg or Hood which caused severe morale problems.

If there had been any Southern nationalism, blacks would have been emancipated and enlisted because the 10% of the Union Army that was black was the North's margin of victory, as Lincoln admitted. A nation does what it has to in order to survive. But minus slavery there was no real point in the Confederacy so this was never done.

And conservatives wonder why they never make any headway with black voters.

Well I suggest you should look at the words of Frederick Douglass who in the fall of 1861 noticed the number of blacks in the Confederate Army, or Ervin Jordan, the first black professor at the University of North Carolina who wrote The Confederate Negro as an associate professor at the University of Virginia in 1969. Perhaps you would care to delve into the records of Charleston and Savannah which amply supply documented evidence of not only blacks fighting in the War, but free blacks volunteering for the war.

Perhaps if the so called 'conservatives' on this forum that are so gung-ho to follow a Tyrant into the depths of Hades were actually to look at the historical records instead of missives coming from on high command in Richmond, they would actually see the truth.

To compare the Holocaust to the War of Southern Independence is not only an insult to my ancestors, but the millions of Jews that died at the hands of a madman

"If there had been any Southern nationalism, blacks would have been emancipated and enlisted because the 10% of the Union Army that was black was the North's margin of victory, as Lincoln admitted."

Bull. A whole lot of Northern European-Americans were so angry at the prospect of being forced to fight Lincoln's war that a week of draft riots in NYC in 1863 left over 1,100 dead. The major cause of the NYC "draft riots" was intense anger among recent Irish immigrants about being forced to fight what they regarded as a war for the rich grandees of the North AND the black slaves.