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LOL - Toombs was against the plan for all-black regiments, so what. The Confederate units used blacks intermingled with their white troops throughout the war. That is what Frederick Douglass is pointing out in the quote you had no real answer to. I'm sorry you think Frederick Douglass was a liar, but I don't. Study history, not "historians".

And what are you doing when you post a quote from Frederick Douglass and present it as proof of the widespread use of black combat troops within southern ranks? Surely you, a student of history, have some quotes from some of the confederate generals of the time that testify to the steadiness of their black combat soldiers?

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And what are you doing when you post a quote from Frederick Douglass and present it as proof of the widespread use of black combat troops within southern ranks?

LOL - I see you still have no rebuttal for the words of Douglass. Evidently you do consider him a liar. I do not.

Surely you, a student of history, have some quotes from some of the confederate generals of the time that testify to the steadiness of their black combat soldiers?

If blacks had been organised into segregated black regiments, there would be much occassion for comments of that nature, but they were not. The Confederate units were mixed, and primarily white by far, and officer's comments are about their units, not their makeup. I have read references in some reports in the past, and will look them up for you. There are, of course, a multitude of other references to black Confederate soldiers, and I mean 'soldiers', not musicians and cooks and teamsters. Many of them come from Northern soldiers and newspapers, as well as official Northern reports. I guess you think them all liars, just as you do Frederick Douglass.