black confederates

  1. jgoodguy

    Black Confederates Primary Document 2 - Mobile Al 1865

    Re: Mobile AL BCs I do not accept alleged 'Black Confederates' without some documentation with unit designations, names, and ranks, because otherwise, we do not know if they were newspaper editors' imagination, combatants, labor corps, contractors or camp servants.
  2. jgoodguy

    Primary Evidence: The Black Troops raised by Majors Turner & Pegram, Richmond, VA, March-April 1865

    Link Head Quarters Department of Richmond, Richmond, Va., 15 March 1865 General, Under the instructions of Gen Lee as contained in the accompanying letter I would suggest that the enrollment of negroes in this city be commenced as soon as possible. I would repectfully recommend that Maj. J. W...
  3. jgoodguy

    Reading Searching for Black Confederates Levin, Kevin M

    I am strictly a lay historian. This will be a basic reading. Hopefully, I will be joined by more expert commentators. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth has been in the works for a very long time. It is very good to have this for a reference. In the...
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