There's no credible evidence of as many as 100 black rebel soldiers.
It's the neo-reb "big lie."
Walt
You have been lied to. I will direct you to a single report by a Northern officer, Chief Inspector Lewis Steiner of the US Sanitary Commission. He was in Fredericksburg and observed Jackson's Army for hours as it marched through on it's way to Antietam in 1862. In his report he noted:
"Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in the rebel ranks. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army."
It's the neo-reb "big lie."
The "big lie", it seems, would be the neo-unionist's denial of black Confederates.