Given your hate-driven vitriol, you probably deny the many contributions of black Americans during the War for Independence. They too fought for slave-owners and slave-States despite British offers of immediate emancipation. Over five thousand black Americans fought in George Washington's Army. According to your line of logic, that would impossible. But it's true, they did. Their honor and glory is theirs forever, and all the propagandists and hate-mongers that dare to pick up a pen can't take it from them. The same is true of their descendants who fought for the Confederate Army. Here's what a REPUBLICAN (gasp) member of the US Sanitary Commission reported after being caught behind lines prior to the battle of Antietam. He observed Stonewall Jackson's Corps as it moved through the town of Frederick, Maryland:
"Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number [64,000]. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but also in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie knives, dirks, etc...and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army." - Chief Inspector Lewis Steiner, 'Report from Antietam'
Tennessee authorised by State law the enlistment of "male persons of color between the ages of 15 and 50" in June of 1861. And yes, many were actual soldiers. The 14th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (CSA) for example, listed numerous "men of color" on their Roll of Honor, including one who was killed in action carrying the unit's colors during the charge of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble at Gettysburg. There are many memoirs and unit histories written by union veterans that testify to their encounters with armed and fighting black Confederate soldiers. Next time you visit Arlington Cemetery you might want to check out the Confederate Memorial. It was erected in 1912 and was sculpted by a jewish Confederate veteran named Moses Ezekiel. On one of its panels is a scene of Confederate soldiers marching off to war. One of them is black, with clear African features.
That you are sane?