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More free blacks fought for the South than for the North, FAR more. There are still many predominantly black chapters of the Sons of Confederate Soldiers. Some close to here. They were integrated and had the same supplies and equipment in the South. Not by a long shot in the North. They got dregs and not all were even armed.
They were ordered into the most deplorable conditions, impossible odds... often. They were not wanted.
No so in the South, they were part of the regular army.
Southern free solders when taken as prisoners of war by the North were shot, just shot.
The South treated Northern black soldiers the same as Northern prisoners of war, same barracks, same food, same supplies.
Europe, having abolished slavery, many nations for a hundred years backed the South knowing that we had a long-term plan and our cause was just.
If the war was about slavery, this would never have happened.
"Freeing" slaves with no infrastructure caused many deaths and much disease, this was the tactic of the North, it was cruel to the slaves, more-so than to anyone else and was intentional.
Lincoln did not want slaves to be free or part of the Union, he stated this many times. How his legacy became what it is, is still a mystery.
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