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1. http://www.rebelgray.com/BLACKREBS.htm
by Vernon R. Padgett, Ph.D.

(Vernon and I were in the same SCV camp together, The John Bell Hood, Los Angles, California. BT)

2. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1054334/posts
Black Confederates, Why haven't we heard more about them? National Park Service historian, Ed Bearrs, stated.

3. http://www.civilwarhistory.com/Black%20Slaveowners.htm
DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT, BLACK SLAVEOWNERS

4. 5 April 1862

"The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. That
whenever colored persons are employed as musicians in any regiment or
company, they shall be entitled to the same pay now allowed by law to
musicians regularly enlisted: Provided, That no such persons shall be so
employed except by the consent of the commanding officer of the brigade to
which said regiments or companies may belong."

Source-O.R. Series IV, Vol, 1, page 1059
Secondary source-"Black Southerners in Confederate Armies"-J.H. Segars and
Charles Kelly Barrow-copyright 2001; Page 27

5. Dr. Lewis Steiner, a member of the U.S. Sanitary Commission who happened to be in Frederick, Maryland as the Confederate Army passed through on their way to Sharpsburg noted a large number of armed black soldiers. Steiner recorded in his diary that five-percent of the army he observed were black soldiers but based on his description it is probable that he was describing only those who appeared to be serving as combatants. On Wednesday September 10, 1862 Steiner wrote, "At 4 o'clock this morning the Rebel army began to move from our town, Jackson's force taking the advance. The movement continued until 8 o'clock P.M., occupying 16 hours. The most liberal calculation could not give them more than 65,000 men. Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in the number … They had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and they were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of generals and promiscuously mixed up with all the Rebel horde."