[SCDogPapa]

"There is -no- credible evidence that even a small number blacks served as soldiers in the rebel armies."

Would this be credible?? Capt. Heysinger was a Union Officer

Wednesday, September 10: At 4 o'clock this morning the Rebel army began to move from our town, Jackson's force taking the advance. The movement continued until 8 o'clock P.M., occupying 16 hours. The most liberal calculation could not give them more than 64,000 men. Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in the number. . . . They had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and they were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of generals and promiscuously mixed up with all the Rebel horde.

Capt. Isaac Heysinger

[WhiskeyPapa]

Wednesday, September 10: At 4 o'clock this morning the Rebel army began to move from our town, Jackson's force taking the advance. The movement continued until 8 o'clock P.M., occupying 16 hours. The most liberal calculation could not give them more than 64,000 men. Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in the number. . . . They had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and they were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of generals and promiscuously mixed up with all the Rebel horde.

Capt. Isaac Heysinger

I don't know who this guy is, but this text was in a phamplet written and published in 1862 by a Dr. Lewis Steiner.

See this link:

http://www.edinborough.com/Life/AtFront/Steiner.htm

Where'd you get your info? SCV or League of the South? Hate groups don't make real objective sources.

Walt

[WhiskeyPapa]

See also #179 in this thread.

How very odd.

Walt

[WhiskeyPapa]

The most liberal calculation could not give them more than 64,000 men.

Anyone with even a slight knowledge of the ACW knows that Lee's army at Antietam was only 40-45,000. No matter who wrote this (and Dr. Steiner definitely did), he's not very credible.

Neither are you.

Walt