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Thats historical misinformation, and the official Confederate archives prove it. In his official report following the battle, General P.G.T. Beauregard sourly informed President Jefferson Davis that the results of the fighting at Olustee were insignificant, thanks largely to the fact that his own forces made no serious attempt to pursue U.S. troops as they withdrew.
When asked why he and his men were letting the federal forces escape, one Confederate field officer responded: Killing *******, sir. A timely advance by black troops saved the day for the Union forces. As one white eye-witness put it, The colored troops went in grandly, and they fought like devils, suffering high casualties as they advanced. As white U.S. troops withdrew, the Confederates set upon the wounded American black men in uniform. In their eagerness to murder wounded blacks, the Confederates threw away what Beauregard called the apparent opportunity of striking the enemy an effective blow.
Furthermore, the slaves in northern territory were freed by their states, not the union. Delaware was both the first and the last state to outlaw slavery. When they first outlawed slavery it was an economic disaster so they quickly reinstated it which may explain why they were the last state AFTER the civil war to free their slaves.
If this was all about slavery, why did 4 slave holding states remain with the north?
The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation. [my bold]
-- from Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
Damnyankee troops were also known to kill Black CSA troops.
Ah...here we go again.In who gives a shit news
