Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: christof139

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey
I'm just interested to find this aspect of the Civil War that isn't much talked about. Wikipedia's article on the CSA currently states merely that "The rank and file of the Confederate armed forces consisted of white males with an average age between 16 and 28. A few Black Freedmen also served in regular formations. Many thousands of slaves served as laborers, cooks, pioneers and in other non-combat roles."

Forget Wikepedia!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get real.

There is a ton of info. about this that Wikepedia and posting Wikepedians don't know about in the least bit at all.

I nor anyone else is saying the CSA Armed forces were in the main composed of AF-Am's!!! What is being said and pointed out with historical accuracy is that thousands of AF-Am's fought in the CSAAF, as well as mainly served in non-combatant roles, and without their contribution and the contribution of all the skilled and unskilled AF-AM workers that remained loyal to the South the Confederacy would not have lasted as long as it did.

Many of the AF-AM Southerners that remained loyal to the South, both military and non-military that worked in the armaments industry etc., were given pensions by the states they lived in and served. Awarding of pensions was quite prevalent in the South, seemingly more so than in the North. Most Northerners were not Abolitionists and could have cared less if the AF-Am's became free or not. Several Indian Inf. regiments mutinied when they learned that AF-Am troops were to serve in the same Army as they.

Chris

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Hey, hey, calm down. I cited Wikipedia to illustrate what seems to be "common knowledge". However, if you have better information, there's nothing to stop you adding it to Wikipedia yourself. I've made small edits to a couple of Wikipedia pages recently; it's not difficult.

I've also transferred this topic to a new thread because it seemed misplaced in the "ETA on the Patch" thread.

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ORIGINAL: christof139
I wouldn't waste my time editing or posting at Wikipedia. I have better things to do.

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ORIGINAL: christof139
Haven't I met you before at some stupid know-it-all wargaming group or the like??

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But you're willing to spend lots of your time posting messages here, which has a much smaller audience. Oh, well, each to his own taste.

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I very much doubt it. And I'm amazed that you're taking this hostile attitude to me for no reason. My replies to you have been consistently friendly.

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This is just absurd. All I've done in this series of messages was to express polite interest in your own messages, and to ask you to calm down when you seemed to be getting over-excited.

Well, my interest in you and your messages has ended. Goodbye.

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This passes as polite conversation now? I personally have no doubt as to whom was polite and whom was obnoxious.

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Just in case anyone else is still reading this thread (why, I wonder?), I'd just like to point out that I have never set out to mock, insult, or dictate to this person in any way.

Apparently he's so determined to make enemies that he's capable of finding injury in the most innocent of messages.