[GOPcapitalist]

Even the legislation passed by the rebel congress in 1865 did not do what the author of this article says it did.

Yet the terms of enlistment for several of the black regiments that were raised in that final month did. The one that saw combat was among these and it is noted accordingly on the historical markers there.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Even the legislation passed by the rebel congress in 1865 did not do what the author of this article says it did.

Yet the terms of enlistment for several of the black regiments that were raised in that final month did.

No it did not. Here is what the legislation said:

"SEC. 3. That no negro slave shall be received into the service without the written consent of his owner and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War to carry into effect this act."

But here is what the author of this article said:

"The Confederacy, its own troop strength depleted, offered slaves freedom if they volunteered for the army."

And that is a false statement.

This was less than -three-weeks- before the rebellion collapsed, and the slave power could still not write legislation to free negroes from bondage.

Oh, and what about this:

From the Confederate Constitution: Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 4: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."

I hadn't heard the rebels ever added any amendments to their constitution, so no owner -had- to free his slaves, nor could the government seize them.

Walt

[Grand Old Partisan]

No regiments of blacks Confederate troops were raised, ever, though in the Richmond-Petersburg area, several slave gangs of trench diggers nad whatnot were dubbed military units. A couple of them drilled for a few days, but none were ever armed and none fought.

Propagators of the silly neo-Confederate myth about black rebel troops, even some government employees in times past, have had incentives to place erroneous markers around, which when false prove nothing. For example, in Alexandra, VA there is a historial marker from the 1950s on the spot where that inn keeper shot the U.S. Army officer who was taking down a rebel flag. The marker goes on about how the inn keeper was nobly defending blah blah blah and that he was the first casualty of the war when he was shot secondds later. Of course, the colonel he had just shot was the first casualty of the war!