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Re: Enlistment Of Blacks in the Confederate Milita

Glenn there was no such policy. None, Zilch.

Go to this link, from here you can get a reference to my source.
http://negrosingrey.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?658

You may then read the works of the Confederate government.

Blacks were duly enlisted in the Confederate army as early as 1861. The La. Native guard is one unit. Now these critics like to say that the Confederates had no blacks because there were no Black units such as the USCT, that is because our boys served in ranks together i9n the same unit. Now as I tell those doubters when we discuss a cook, prove to me he did not carry a gun or kill a Yankee. That stops them dead in their tracks or they go to "yes butin"

Who did the Yankees see as soldiers--

THE PRIVATE SOLDIER.

6. In the fullest sense, any man in the military service who receives pay, whether sworn in or not, is a soldier, because he is subject to military law. Under this general head, laborers, teamsters, sutlers, chaplains, &c. are soldiers. In a more limited sense, a private soldier is a man enlisted in the military service to serve in the cavalry, artillery, or infantry. He is said to be enlisted when he has been examined, his duties of obedience explained to him, and after he has taken the prescribed oath.

General August Kautz's, USA,ā€¯Customs of Service, for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers" (1864), page. 11

Being anyone of these gets you a ticket to a POW Camp.

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