"Black troops in the ACW" Topic

"Note that the subject is not the Blacks in the Confederate army.

You and the others have completely ignored those who fought for the north!?"

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Good point. It went off so quickly as to blacks in the Confederate Army, I lost track of the original topic. 😂

But I did give you the answer to "United States Colored Troops". 😉

To be honest, there is lots of books and information on the web about black Union troops now. Like other civil war regiments, there were both good, bad and average.

There is a graveyard of United States Colored Troops and Black state volunteer regiments 30 minutes from my house. Around 50 graves. I've stopped there on a few Memorial days to fire a one gun salute, when doing a living history up the road from there. But I no longer have my Enfield rifle, I do artillery when I do anything anymore.

@doc mcb
For me a mixed race person whatever his degree of filiation to a white person (mulatto, is neither white nor black, he is a human being who has his ass between two chairs that's all and it should not have been a "right to own" slaves, even at the time.

Same for the zambo, designating people from unions between Blacks and Native Americans, like the Cherokee who provided two regiments to the confederacy and who also owned slaves.

@35thOVI
Yes there are now many books and information on the Web about everything you want.

In this case TMP has no reason to exist anymore?

I prefer TMP, the Web is only good for buying my books and my 'S'ranges.

Of course slavery is evil, for all sorts of reasons. But if you base laws on race, you have to define race. Which is likewise probably evil, and at least exceedingly complex.

But our understandings and attitudes have changed in the past 50 years. If folks from the 1850s were instead alive today, they'd agree with us. And if we were living back then, we'd agree with them.

@doc mcb
If people from the 1850s were instead alive today, they'd agree with us?

They would take us for fools.

And if we were living in the 1850s, much like nationalists from all countries would agree with them.

For me, a human of the 21st century, putting myself in their shoes is very difficult.

Of course it is difficult. Necessary, though, if we value truth about the past.

@doc mcb
We cannot compare their era and ours and those who say that they would have this or that in situations that they have not experienced are imbeciles and with their passion for history, they are legion.

@All
Nowadays if you think like a citizen of the time, guess what people think of you LOL