Well let's see. Drafted for labor, you say?
>A UNION surgeon, caught behind Confederate lines in 1862, observed the Army of Northern Virginia moving toward Sharpsburg and remarked in his diary on the presence of Black ConfederatesWell let's see. First, you have said in other threads that the blacks were not involved and not allowed to be involved in Confederate campaigns until 1865 and only after much protest. Then now you say that these 'slaves' were only used as support groups, when time and time again I have provided written letters from free blacks in the South volunteering for service within the Confederate Army as early as May 1861, provided the names of towns throughout the South where monuments stand to blacks that fought along side with other Southerners for freedom from the EMPIRE, and letters from Union soldiers attesting to the armed blacks within the Confederate Army. What do you want? A time machine to go back and see it with your own eyes before you believe it? Face it, after 135 years, and grievance after grievance piled up at the feet of the national government, the true testimony to what the northern Tyrant did to this nation is finally coming to light, and probably the greatest attempt of propaganda in the history of this nation is being shown for what it truly is..a lieWednesday, September 10Black Southerners in Gray, Richard Rollins, p11
At 4 o'clock this morning the Rebel army began to move from our town, Jackson's force taking the advance. The movement continued until 8 o'clock P.M., occupying 16 hours. The most liberal calculation could not give them more than 64,000 men. Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in that number...They had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc...were manifestly and integral portion of the Southern Confederacy army...promiscously mixed up with all the Rebel horde