Black Armed irregular resistance to theConfederacy

leftyhunter

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Recently we had a thread titled"why no slave uprisings during the Civil War". Some blacks did rise up against their masters and fought Confederate forces deep inside Confederate lines often fighting alongside fellow white Southerners.
Slaves where well known for hiding and feeding escaped prisoners and deserters but they also fought the Confederacy. In Fl a worried CSA officer wrote in Aug 1864"many deserters ..are collected in the swamps and fastness of Taylor. Lafayette. Levy and other counties and have organized with runaway Negros, bands for the purpose of committing depredations upon the plantations and crops of loyal citizens and running of their slaves. These depredatory bands have even threatened the cities of Tallahassee,Madison and Marianna". That same month came word that a band of 500 Union men deserters an Negros where raiding towards Gainsville.
P.169 "Bitterly Divided the Souths inner Civil war David Williams thepress.co
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