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But you must have something that you base your claim of 60,000 free black males in Virginia on? And I would assume that that was free black males of all ages, so a sizable percentage would be children under military age.

60,000 is NOT my number, but rather that of the VA state historical society. their data is PRIMARILY drawn from records OTHER than census records=family Bibles and church records for example.

the figure of 60,000 includes all persons who were both FREE & MALE;there is no breakdown by age as far as i know of ANYWHERE. SORRY.

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But you must have something that you base your claim of 60,000 free black males in Virginia on? And I would assume that that was free black males of all ages, so a sizable percentage would be children under military age.

According to the 1860 Census, there were only 27,721 Free Black males of all ages in Virginia. In fact, in all the Confederate states combined, there were only 62,968 Free Black males of all ages. But stand watie has every last one of them, from age 0 to 100+ serving in the Confederate Army plus another 17,000 who must have somehow magically appeared to defend the slavers.

These guys get more bizarre by the moment.