[WhiskeyPapa]

What really is amazing to me is the number of men with doctorate degrees readily presenting evidence of these brave men and women and I'm supposed to take the word of a park ranger.

What you ignore every time this comes up is that Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and the CSA congress have no apparent knowledge of what you swear as gospel. It's got nothing to do with historians and everything to do with the historical record.

You won't touch that because it won't back up your fantasy.

Walt

[billbears]

No Walt I'll touch it and I've covered this before. Unlike abe who micromanaged every aspect of the War, which begs the question how could he NOT know of the travesties his army was doing not only to the army of the South, but her citizens, regardless of age or sex, or the property in the South? (as covered in the Official Record)

Several of the Confederate States did allow for enlistment of blacks, Tennessee being one in particular . Also many of the men came straight off their farms, started companies within their own towns without being officially tied to the Confederate Army. There are plenty of reasons and you as well know that. Just because official documentation didn't come down from Richmond until late in the War doesn't mean it didn't happen. As I said, the South in the beginning took a different outlook on what roles the general government should play. And micromanaging their soldiers, even to the point of punishing them for freeing slaves, was not something that was done so 'efficiently' as lincoln did