Go to this site:
http://members.aol.com/neoconfeds/thorwitz.htm
It is about a Black gentleman and the Black soldiers. He said there were 90,000 Black soldiers who fought for the South.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know he is dead wrong. At it's peak there were 1.4 million confederate soldiers. Anyone who wants to suggest that 6 to 7 percent of those soldiers were black is a lunatic. There are no records whatsoever of Union soldiers facing black confederate soldiers, except for occasional stories and the one black confederate taken prisoner at Gettysburg. The problem I am finding on the web is that all those "dixie" websites throw out the same quotes without any references whatsoever. You can find the same kind of bias at the anti souther websites, so they aren't much better for gathering the truth. This story of Blacks fighting for the confederacy is highly questionable. I doubt there were that many Blacks interested in supporting the cause, and I certainly doubt there were many whites in the south interested in fighting side by side with blacks. The numbers I read are everything from 6 thousand to 90 thousand. There are many books of letters and diaries of both union and southern soldiers. I have ready many of those and not once did I come across any mention of black confederates. I find it hard to believe that something so unusual would not have been mentioned considering the fact they frequently talked about the black slaves (contraband) who crossed over the lines and caused logistical havoc for the union armies.