"Blacks who fought for the South" Article by Walter Williams
Black Confederate Heritage by the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"Forgotten Soldiers of the Confederacy" by Kim A. O'Connell
The Confederate Private Website-'Black Confederate Soldiers'
Black Confederates and Afro-yankees in Civil War Virginia
A testament to Southern Black Patriotism: In march of 1865 the State of Virginia issued a request for 300,000 black soldiers. Eighty three per cent of the male slave population in Richmond volunteered for duty. This was at the war's end with almost certain 'emancipation' on the way. Eighty three per cent. Slaves fought to establish the Original Principles in the first American Revolution, they fought to preserve them in the second.