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Article: Black Confederate Soldiers

 
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Article: Black Confederate Soldiers
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During our War of 1861, ex-slave Frederick Douglass observed, "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 . . . and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government."

Dr. Lewis Steiner, a Union Sanitary Commission employee who lived through the Confederate occupation of Frederick, Maryland said, "Most of the Negroes . . . were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy Army." Erwin L. Jordan's book Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia cites eyewitness accounts of the Antietam campaign of "armed blacks in rebel columns bearing rifles, sabers, and knives and carrying knapsacks and haversacks." After the Battle of Seven Pines in June 1862, Union soldiers said that "two black Confederate regiments not only fought but showed no mercy to the Yankee dead or wounded whom they mutilated, murdered and robbed."

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Yes, I never saw them as anything but soldiers like all the other ones.
I saw they also fought just like the other ones.
I thought of them the same way I did the other ones.

I respected them and still do.
It does not matter which side they were on, they all were soldiers to me.

I would have rather they never been pushed into war at all.
I never believed at anytime it was to free the slaves as they say.

It was like Ukraine today to me.
Oligarchs fighting for control of the banks and industry at the cost of the humans lives that was astronomical.

Should have never bee handled that way, it to me was needless.

I love to see their pictures and glad to see them still here in their newest generations.
And that they are everywhere and amongst us all just like we are.

Wished they did not have to die like that none of them.
The most precious things are the simple things in life, always present in the simplest of minds.





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