[thatdewd]

Davis then correctly says that thousands of blacks fought for the Confederacy, and did so with patriotism. This is an important truth, which is actively being erased by politically correct forces.

So true. The PC extremists despise any truth that doesn't fit their manufactured version of history. Frederick Douglass used black Confederates as part of his argument that blacks should be allowed to fight for the North. I guess the revisionists will say Douglass was a liar, and erase him from the books next.

"There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. There were such soldiers at Manassas, and they are probably there still...Rising above vulgar prejudice, the slaveholding rebel accepts the aid of the black man as readily as that of any other." - Frederick Douglass in 1861.

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"The day that the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined and disgraced," -- Robert Toombs of Georgia, 1865.

[one2many]

Good lick on the Douglass quote. Thanks.

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I ran across something that I would like your opinion on. Here is a link to a piece of legislation called "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Army by the employment of Free Negroes and Slaves in certain capacities." It was passed in February 1864 and specifies the use of free blacks and slaves in supporting roles. My question is that if, as you claim, free blacks were commonly used as combat soldiers in the confederate army then why would this legislation authorizing the use of free blacks be necessary, and why didn't it specify their use in the combat arms?