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 Posted: Wed Apr 29th, 2009 04:29 pm
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 susansweet3 wrote: This is false.

There were many free blacks in the Confederate army.  Even slaves had ample opportunity to exercise their "political loyalty" by simply walking away from camp or while on the march.

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"...free blacks in the Confederate army..."

-National Archives Compiled Service Records

"Even slaves had ample opportunity to exercise their "political loyalty" by simply walking away from camp or while on the march."

-Confederate pension applications where they show servants (slaves) with the army for several years to the end of the war.