[GOPcapitalist]

Nice try, but this is a report, supposedly, from a Union officer, who may or may not have known personally what he reported. The very fact that the source is entitled "The War of the Rebellion" calls it into question.

What on earth are you smoking, Partisan? The multi-volume set entitled "The War of the Rebellion" is the OFFICIAL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED SET OF MILITARY RECORDS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. You cannot get any more "official" or any more "union" than that. It was put out by the government printing office to archive the major military documents. The cornell website has most of the volumes online, including the one I linked you to. That record I cited you is a yankee commander's reports of action to his superior officers during the middle of the war - an official military document from a first hand source appearing in an official government publication.

I have on several occasions said that early on a few black slaves did accompany their masters to battle. Again, cite me a reference in any U.S. Army account.

I just did, Partisan, and you responded by claiming that the official military account in the official records publication of the US Government was not credible since it was titled "The War of the Rebellion"!!! If the official records of the US government don't count on the grounds that YOU do not like their title, I ask you - what else does count? Apparently nothing.

[Grand Old Partisan]

No, you're right about "The War of the Rebellion".

As I've said many times before, early on in the war a few slaves may have fought alongside their masters, but the evidence from the U.S. Army side for the large numbers of black rebels asserted by neo-Confederates does not exist. Is there any mention in U.S. Army accounts of that regiment of black rebels near Saylor Creek? What was its designation -- e.g., the 1st Virginia CSA Colored Regiment? Which Confederate officer commanded it? Which other Confederate officers were in it? Did the black veterans of the regiment get Virginia state pensions as did white rebel veterans? Where is the roster of the regiment?