" There were never 70,000 African-Americans who served. They were never even able to get one battalion of negro soldiers together."
The number may have been as high as 90,000, but you keep on spinning your Yankee myth. You sound just like Baghdad Bob ... " There are no Americans in Baghdad, they are lost out in the desert!" You obviously know nothing of the culture of the Antebellum South, nor of the relationships between black and white Southerners before Lincoln's invasion. You take all of your opinions from the shrill parrots of the Yankee Abolition movement (Harriet Beecher Stowe comes to mind), whom I might add, knew nothing of Southern culture other than that they hated Southerners. Before you start spewing the racist inuendos, I will state for the record that I am not a racist, I am a historian who seeks truth, and for every story there is always two sides. You need to develope a little common sense to figure out who has nothing to hide, and who needs to put a slant on things to justify their own moral high ground. Do some digging into hard facts, what you find might change your perception of historical events.