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To: Grand Old Partisan
In fact, 200,000 southern blacks

FALSE. There were not even 200,000 black troops in the ENTIRE yankee military, much less from the south. There were about 180,000 black troops in the union ranks. Roughly 50% of them came from the confederacy.

and 100,000 southern whites fought for the United States of America

FALSE. Excluding the border states like Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland that provided large ammounts of troops to both sides, the number of union troops from the south was virtually negligable. Few CSA states had more than a couple thousand and some had barely a dozen.

62 posted on 07/23/2003 2:51:41 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
You claim to be an expert on precisely how many black troops were in the United States Army and Navy during the Civil War yet give credence to absurdities such as black rebel soldiers. Further, while you count white rebels from the non-CSA states in the Confederate ranks as southerners, you do not count blacks from non-CSA southerner states in the Unions ranks.

To gain some credibility on this subject, read Lincoln's Loyalists by Richard N. Current.
74 posted on 07/23/2003 7:20:09 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: GOPcapitalist
There were 40,000 white Tenneseans in the U.S. Army during the Civil War -- hardly a negigible number.
75 posted on 07/23/2003 7:21:17 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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