…Negroes Shall Fight for or Against Us.
"The idea of forcing slaves to fight in the Confederate armies was one of the hottest debates in Richmond. The day previous, the House voted to allow slaves to be drafted as soldiers. Now it had to face the Senate and then the President.
Jefferson Davis had already voiced his approval of the measure, though only as an absolute necessity. As things stood now, however, that time had come. At the end of December, the editor of the Mobile Register and Advertiser send Davis an editorial supporting this view, something that paper had expounded nice November of 1863.
In it, the editor thought that Richmond should make "a permanent levy or draft of a certain proportion of the slave population." Since there seemed to be no way to coax the "stragglers, skulkers and absentees" back into the armies, and since, as the paper suggested, the Union had "marshaled 200,000 of our slaves against us," the slave population, it was proposed, should be tapped…"
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Two questions please.
a)Are here wargamers of ACW who played with full African American Regiments on the table?
b)Anyone tried to wargame "what if" involving African American soldiers from EACH side?
c) If you answer yes to a) which was the rate of the unit?
Thanks in advance for your guidance.
Amicalement
Armand