[Non-Sequitur]

Mr Williams presented his article with one specific purpose, i.e. - to refute the arguments that textbook claims of negroes/blacks serving in the Confederate army were unfounded. He confined his remarks to that topic and that purpose. He was under no intellectual or moral obligation to expand beyond that point.

Williams had, I submit, a dual purpose - that blacks served widely and willingly in the rebel army and that their service was valued and respected by white Southerners of the period. The first half has an element of truth in it. The second is plain ridiculous.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Sorry, but I see absolutely nothing in the article that suggests an argument on William’s part that “blacks served widely and willingly”; Mr Williams simply cites historical records and the writings of Charles Wesley, black historian, that certain numbers of negroes/blacks served willingly in the Confederate army.

[I Buried My Guns]

"... served widely and willingly in the rebel army and that their service was valued and respected by white Southerners of the period. The first half has an element of truth in it. The second is plain ridiculous..."

Not true. There are many instances in the diaries of Southern soldiers and officers of Confederates giving "huzzahs' and 3 cheers for their fellow black soldiers, as they were either on their way to, or returning from, a battle.

Your anti-southern bias and hatred is showing, and it is not attractive.