Hoyt Cagle
Blacks In The CSA
Mon May 28 20:13:54 2001


There are very few, if any "facts" in your message. There most definitely were not more free blacks in the Confederate States than in the Union States. If you desire, I can and will provide primary source documentation on this. Also, in 1832, free people of color were legally prohibited from entering the state of Alabama. In 1834, it became illegal for any newly emancipated slave to remain in the state. By 1854, all free people of color were required by law to have a white man as a guardian. In 1860, it became illegal for a slave-owner to emancipate a slave in his or her will. It was even illegal to send a slave away from Alabama in order for him or her to be emancipated. As far as your KKK comments, the name Ku Klux Klan comes from the Greek word kuklos (meaning Circle) and from the Scottish word clan meaning brotherhood. Thus the hooded society was named Ku Klux Klan, which meant "circle of brotherhood." It was self-named, not given by others. As far as the Black Union soldiers that "didn't" fight at Vicksburg, if you would bother to consult basic source material you just might learn some real history. The following sources tell of the various Black Regiments that fought at Vicksburg:

•Dyer, Frederick H., A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 3 Volumes DES MOINES, IOWA; THE DYER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1908.

•Gladstone, William A. UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS 1863-1867. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1990.

•United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. (128 Volumes). Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.

•Wilson, Joseph T. THE BLACK PHALANX: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-1865. Hartford, CT.: American Publishing Company, 1890.

To save room in this message, I didn't list the many Black Union Regiments that fought at various dates at Vicksburg, but will be glad to do so if desired.
It's really not my place to say, but I personally think that your uninformed revision of history has no place on this forum.
P.S.: "it's = it is"; "its = belonging to it."