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You could, you're proud of him, but you don't. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. I must assume you can't. My ancestors in the war fought in the 6th New Jersey, 22 nd New Jersey, and 37th New York. They were proud to make freedom a reality for Americans of African heritage so that they could be treated like men in this country instead of like furniture, and that's what they did.

I have to admint though, that if I had been an American of African heritage in the south in 1861, the first think I wouldl have done is enlist in the Confederate Army so I could get my ass out of the south the first chance I had. LOL..

I am reminded of the two fine black regiments raised in New Orleans by the citizens of New Orleans at the start of the war. When the Davis government ordered that no blacks be trained and put into arms, they were disbanded, but when General Butler asked for volunteers to fight for freedom, they volunteered to the man for service in the Union Army. Those were great men.

according to the African American Museum in New Orleans, bejamin "the beast" butler told the Native Guards that if they didn't "volunteer" they would be sold into slavery.

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