To keep this discussion on topic for Texas, here's a quote from the Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It's part of a resolution that appeared in the Richmond Examiner, Feb 24, 1865:

"The great peril of the country, and the extreme emergency, should prompt all friends of the cause to lay aside all prejudice," calling black soldiers "available and necessary for the furtherance of our ultimate object - independence and separate nationality".
J Tracy Power, Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Norhern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox, p 251

Based on other quotes, many of Lee's soldiers were willing to try this experiement based on General Lee's recomendation and the urgent need for a new source of manpower.

Here's an outline for Confederate proposals to use black men, free and slave, to assist the Confederate military.
http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=November&Date=5

Anyone can fill up a post with opinion. For those seeking to know what really happened, verifiable facts are much more valuable. It shouldn't take a PhD to understand the difference.