• dankm@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    That’s actually fascinating. I knew there were free black soldiers in the Union, but none in the south is mind boggling.

    Our history classes coverage of the US civil war was basically: “we don’t want that fighting shit up here, so provinces were given less power, and we joined together because we needed to be able to defend ourselves in case the Union invades us.”

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      11 months ago

      I think there was a last-ditch effort like, right before the South lost the war where they authorized black soldiers, but I don’t think they ever saw combat. May not have even been mustered and trained. But it was like a month or two before the war ended.