Tuesday, March 13, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1865, the Confederate Congress authorized the enlistment of up to 300,000 slaves as soldiers, in exchange for their freedom. Little late to use 30% of the population, whose Northern counterparts had proved their courage and fighting skills time and again. The Confederacy didn't last a full month after this action, which should have taken place the day after Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. Even better would have been Longstreet's idea that each state should have freed its slaves as it withdrew from the Union.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:44 AM 
