All this individual information needs to be collected or deposited to a central location to build a database. I've seen many over the last five years. There needs to be a place on the internet, for those of interest, to share this information openly.

Their argument is there are no muster rolls to prove this. The problem is the rolls do not show race, at least for the Confederate records I've seen. It's easy to count the USCT rolls, they were segregated from the Union Whites. Not so easy for the non-segregated Confederate rolls. You would have to do a cross reference with each individual via the Federal Census of 1850-60. This I did from a hint about the 1st SC's band and discovered yes indeed they were Black from the Census Records. It will take thousands of man hours to do.