There were indeed black CSA and it would be in the 1000s. I have several books on it.
1000s just from southern Louisiana alone including their own companies...one from a mulatto community uptown.
it’s just a fact not meant to imply much of anything to me other than indeed a fair number did fight for the South or were in the employ of white soldiers too often in exchange for freedom...Bedford Forrest did this for a fair number.
African Americans have a proud history of serving honorably in every war our country has fought.