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Hang around the CW boards for a while and "black confederates" will show up. Again and again and again.
My take: Of nearly a million military-able slaves and freedmen (SWAG) in 1860, there just would have to be some musket-toting black soldiers. I take that as a given. And I'm one of those who doesn't count civilian workers, slave or free, as a soldier. I go along with the idea of enlisted, ranked, paid, et alii, are requirements.
Officially, there were none. Practically speaking, were you a regimental commander, you'd welcome a recruit of any color. Can he march, follow orders and shoot? OK. You're a soldier.
But there are dumb answers.
Ole