and joe, approximately 180,000 black men served in the union army during the civil war. so your suggestion that blacks did nothing to earn their freedom is false.

the tragedy was that the leaders of the confederacy did not recognize that if they did not enlist black soldiers with the promise of freedom, then the yankees would do it.

just think of the result, if general lee would have had a whole army corps of perhaps 50,000 black soldiers with him at gettysburg. and if picketts division was only the spearhead of a 60,000 man assault right through the center of the yankee army!

Last edited by ed good; 08/13/13 09:25 PM.

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