Kevin M. Levin--Historian, Teacher, Public Speaker This seems strange in several ways. Weren’t there already 150k or so formerly enslaved men serving the US? Hadn’t most of them self-emancipated and enlisted because US troops were in the area? And does Lee not see the war as already a long one?
Kevin M. Levin--Historian, Teacher, Public Speaker Here's one. I'll keep looking for more. It's hard to find the right keywords though, the US protests are dominating Google.
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Kevin M. Levin--Historian, Teacher, Public Speaker Warren Platts Virginia passed a law authorizing 'a volunteer force of slave and free negroes' several weeks before the Congress did, and the group from Winder and Jackson hospitals made up of attendants who volunteered was raised under that law. Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) March 4, 1865
Kevin M. Levin--Historian, Teacher, Public Speaker Here's some discussion of the example I mentioned.
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