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Re: Virginia's Black Confederates

State of Tennessee has records of about 250 "colored" persons who applied for Confederate soldiers. A fair number of these were declined due to lack of evidence, while other clearly show that the applicant's service was that of a body servant, cook or teamster. Joe, as you know, nobody denies that black men could be found in Confederate camps - soldiers mention them regularly, but almost exclusively in the roles mentioned.

Here's a reasonable article about Virginia blacks, free and slave, during the Civil War --

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Free_Blacks_During_the_Civil_War

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