By the 1860's, nearly everybody in the South had some African DNA. So, if you apply the old "one drop" rule, nearly everyone in the Confederate Armies was black.
It's just that they didn't all know it, or acknowledge it.
Walts Ice Pick:
"By the 1860's, nearly everybody in the South had some African DNA. So, if you apply the old "one drop" rule, nearly everyone in the Confederate Armies was black." A ludicrous claim, easily refuted by modern DNA studies.
The opposite is true, of course: nearly every African-American has some percentage of "white blood" -- also easily proved by modern DNA analysis.