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[chron-job.livejournal.com]

> in the confederacy, the army was integrated.

Very provocative statement. And, historically, utterly, staggeringly, flagrantly untrue.

The majority of black who served in the confederacy did so as servants and orderlies, often pressed, or accompanying their masters. The only two fighting regiments (raised in the last days when things were truly desperate) were captured days after being mustered, when Richmond was captured.

You cannot make soldiers of slaves, or slaves of soldiers. The day you make a soldier of them is the beginning of the end of the Revolution. And if slaves seem good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

- Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Confederate Congress, and Confederate major general, speaking in opposition to General Lee's request to arm the slaves. The bill allowing slaves to be armed was passed on March 13, 1865. the Surrender at Appomattox was in April of the same year.

dude, if you're gonna troll, troll more effectively by learning some history.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

exCUSE me but he was a history major at WRIGHT STATE