The Touchy Subject of Black Confederate Soldiers

[Alicia J]

Folks, you're seeing the liberal mind at work in these reflexive summary dismissals of the evidence that at least 4,000 blacks voluntarily fought for the South. Most of these guys appear to have responded without even bothering to read the article.

Even if this were true....so what? What's your point?

You're still talking about less than 1% of the Confederate military, even if this were true. But I don't think it is true. I've read all 3 of Shelby Foote's massive books about the Civil War and never came across this.

There were about 2,000 Native Americans who fought for the Confederacy west of the Mississippi River, but if any blacks did I'm sure it was probably a lot fewer than this.

 

[cowboy fan]

As bad as what Germany did in WWII, you don't see any Germans today waving swastika flags.

Because it’s prohibited all over Europe.

 

[JoeB131]

Because it’s prohibited all over Europe.

Exactly.

We should do the same with the Confederate Flag.