Black Southern motivation

[Tom]

No rifles = no riflemen. How many NGs had rifles?

All of them.

 

[jgoodguy]

All of them.

Really? Not all the 'White Confederates' in New Orleans had rifles. Amazing fact.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Really? Not all the 'White Confederates' in New Orleans had rifles. Amazing fact.

I suspect, more than a few had smooth-bores, shot-guns and süch.

 

[Tom]

Really? Not all the 'White Confederates' in New Orleans had rifles. Amazing fact.

Right.

 

[Andersonh1]

One of the problems with arming the militia properly was that arms and men kept being moved out of Louisiana into other parts of the CS, and I believe the governor of Florida had made the problem worse by intercepting a musket purchase bound for Louisiana. So all the best muskets had been sent out of state when the attack came in 1862.

 

[jgoodguy]

I suspect, more than a few had smooth-bores, shot-guns and süch.

Flintlocks too.

 

[jgoodguy]

One of the problems with arming the militia properly was that arms and men kept being moved out of Louisiana into other parts of the CS, and I believe the governor of Florida had made the problem worse by intercepting a musket purchase bound for Louisiana. So all the best muskets had been sent out of state when the attack came in 1862.

I agree. And they were under equipped from the beginning.

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

We have you to study that. Don't need us.

Southern Unionist troops really existed with plenty of documented sources unlike the mythical legions of black Confederate soldiers.
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[Kirk's Raider's]

If I've ever made that argument, you're welcome to point it out and correct me.

That has been the SCV argument for years. Are you saying the SCV is wrong?
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