Did Southern Blacks Fight for the Confederacy?
Those units are said to have existed in the South’s main cities, including Mobile. Some historians saw such regiments – if they can be called such – never were officially mustered into the Confederate ranks and therefore did not "serve" in a fashion similar to that of white soldiers.The crux of the controversy may be in applying the modern-day definition of "black" to antebellum free people of color. Historians say those non-whites who volunteered with the Confederacy would not appreciate being referred to as "black."
"More than 80 percent of the free black population in New Orleans in 1860 had European blood in their veins," wrote James Hollandsworth in his book The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Experience during the Civil War.
"In contrast," he wrote, "fewer than 10 percent of slaves in Louisiana gave evidence of white ancestry. Because skin color and free status were highly correlated, many free blacks identified more closely with Southern whites than with African blacks."
A similar case existed in Mobile. Those with mixed African and European blood formed a special class. Their special status in society elevated them above the black slaves, a circumstance they wanted to protect when the Civil War started, said Sheila Flanagan, assistant director of the Museum of Mobile.
What developed was a color-caste system: The closer one’s skin tone was to white, the higher the status.
For every black that fought for the rebs, there were 10,000 slaves that headed for the Union lines. Over 100,000 of them put on the Union Blue and went hunting rebs.
LOL!! Well there you go then boys!! There wasn't a slave left in the South!! If we use Mr. Ditto's numbers here and take the smallest possible number EVER SEEN in print, which is these 3000 soldiers, reported on by a yankee doctor I might add, we have 30 MILLION slaves that escaped the Southern 'slaveocracy' as the yank apologists so lovingly put it.
By the numbers available of all possible slaves that means that every single one of them escaped to the North and returned 7 times!! Wow Ditto, with numbers like that it's kind of amazing that anyone had time to fight a war!! Transporting folks back and forth must have put a strain on the nation's infrastructure. Wonder why we never hear about these massive migrations back and forth? Just like a lib, throw out an outrageous number that has no basis in reality and expect it to be taken as the Gospel. That's exactly how the lincoln myth began. The fact is that Black Confederate records are being discovered all the time, either from new documentation found or documentation that has been covered up by the yankee propagandists. lincoln's Tariff War needed a cause by late 1862 with so much unrest in the north so they rallied around the Abolitionist Cause. Slavery was a red herring