he was the expert on Black CSA servicemen, having spent over 25 years researching the service/pension/enrollment records.
as for my use of "may", NOBODY is SURE what the total number was, as too many service records have been destroyed over the last 150 years.
"an educated guess" from Professor Blackerby is somewhere between 100K & 150K Black volunteers. (fwiw, the difference is that SOME people-mostly "mixedbloods" MAY have been counted twice. for example a 1/2 Black-1/2 Indian MIGHT have been counted as BOTH.)
i KNOW this doesn't fit your wishes, but until/unless you can come up with something more FACTUAL than what you have so far presented, i'll stick with the expert's opinion/facts.
as for you, go read BLACKS IN BLUE AND GRAY, and you'll know MORE than you evidently do now.
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Or approximately 10 percent of all confederate soldiers. You, sir, are residing on another planet. If you believe that I'd like to discuss a bridge I have for sale in New York.
No he wasn't the chair of history at Tuskegee. This is another of your lies. Hubert Curtis Blackerby was a former Army war correspondent during WW2, then worked as a publisher of "mass market publications" as it says on BIB&G's dust jacket. A little reseach will find the titles--detective and western pulps and comics. Under the name Curtis Blackerby, he published "Great Civil War Stories" (New York, Star Stories, 1961, 192 pp. paperback), also mentioned on the dust jacket. Curiously, while it mentions his background as war correspondent, publisher, author of the other book, and his membership in a military history society, there's no mention of Tuskegee, his being a professor, or anything like what you claim.
"H.C. BLACKERBY, a distinguished member of The Company of Military Historians, frequently lectures at gatherings of educators, scholars, and serious students of Civil War history. His Great Civil War Stories, first published in 1961, admiraby fulfils Aristotle's dictum that Literature should both instruct and delight."
"Early on, during World War II, Blackerby had honed the twin-edged razor of his wit and his concern for fact while editing and publishing newspapers by and for the men in military service. Subsequently, while becomes a successful distributor of mass-market publications, Blackerby kept alive the flame of his concern for truth in historical writing--a concern sharpened by his Alabama background and his zest for facts that counter, preferably wittily, the untested generalizations of pendants and propagandists."
Pretty rich stuff there. Interesting that among all that smoke blowing, there's not a single mention of him being a professor or having any academic qualifications at all, much less being department chair at Tuskegee. By the way, saying that you're a member of the Company of Military Historians isn't much more impressive than saying you're a member of the National Geographic Society. Anyone who can fill out a form and send $45 can apparently be a member.