Black Confederate Soldiers

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• SOURCE: The State
  12-30-17
  

  A monument to SC’s black Confederate soldiers? None fought for the South, experts say.

  Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederate soldiers. But records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War.

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• 10-16-15
  

  Real Confederates Never Knew Any Black Confederate Soldiers

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The story neo-Confederates have been spreading in the weeks since the Charleston shooting that hundreds of thousands of blacks served in the Confederate army are fallacious.