The topic of black Confederate soldiers is rarely talked about, nowadays, because it's not ‘politically correct’, but the truth of the matter is that quite a number of black Southerners served in the Confederate Army, and way before Mr. Lincoln ever let the first black man fight for his beloved Union. The contributions that Black Southerners made to support the South in its struggle for independence should not be denigrated. Why would a black man fight to protect slavery, you ask. It wasn’t…
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