[DoodleDawg]

So if you are a cook you are not a soldier.
That is fascinating.

Not if you were black and cooked for the Confederate army, no.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What if you were white and cooked for the Confederate army?

Still not a soldier?

The way to tell who was considered a soldier and who was not is to look at the pension files. If they awarded a pension to your or your family, you were a soldier.