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Virginia’s Governor urges use of slaves as Confederate Soldiers
By December of 1864 it was clear to anyone who cared to see that the Confederacy was fast approaching exhaustion. Union armies under Grant in Virginia and Sherman in Georgia had placed a chokehold on the military resources of the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Jefferson Davis, Secession, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged Andrew Martin Chandler, black Confederate soldiers, black Confederates, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederates, Jefferson Davis, Patrick Cleburne, RonElFran, Silas Chandler, the Confederacy, William "Extra Billy" Smith
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