Nice rebuttal-

Blacks served both sides in Civil War

When a writer chortles that the very notion of black Confederates is a “myth,” and dismisses anyone with evidence to the contrary as disreputable, said writer should have a basic command of the subject on which he pontificates....The article states: “It wasn’t until April 1865 that the Confederate Congress voted to arm blacks.” Anyone with an elementary grasp of the Civil War knows that Richmond fell on April 2. Therefore, there was no functioning Confederate congress in April 1865 that could have passed this act. In fact, the Virginia Legislature in early March passed a resolution approving slave soldiers. The Confederate Congress followed with an act authorizing black regiments on March 13. Within days, two companies were organized and drilling in Richmond. If your writers, who regularly inflict us with one-sided, South-bashing Civil War dogma, cannot even get a simple fact such as this right, why should we take seriously their positions?

AMANDA WARREN, BUFORD

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/readers-write-dec-2/npZPZ/