I we're in agreement about this, we'll just have to change topics and find something else to argue. Could be wrong, but it seems I learn more from you when we disagree than otherwise.

During the past twenty years I've been collecting information about Alabama Confederate and militia units. We recently exchanged notes about General Maury's interest in receiving permission to recruit a company of Creoles from Mobile. His note is dated Movember 1863. A least one Mobile company recruited later by Capt. Augustus Brooks included men who are listed on roll individually as Creoles.

In his book, Confederate Mobile, Art Bergeron says something about the attempt to place Creoles in segregated units.
Please pass along anything you have about these early war commands. I'd like to match it with information I already have.