The SCV version of 'belief' in 'Black Confederates'

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Muster roll certification.

"The 'Remarks' set opposite the name of each officer and soldier are accurate and just."

Everyone on the roll is a soldier.
 

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Muster Roll of the 48th Mississippi Volunteers

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"All officers and soldiers are to be taken up on the rolls as soon as assigned to the company by competent authority...and to be dropped when similarly transferred from it."

"If wounded in battle, or injured on duty--if sick, or confined, a remark to that effect, &c, &c--must be carefully stated opposite to the name of the person concerned, with every thing else necessary, either to account fully for every individual of the company--to guide the paymaster--or insure justice to the soldier, and to the Government."

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Every enlisted man was a soldier - whatever their duties...

Gen. Thomas C. Hindman:

"Every man between sixteen and sixty, who is able to serve the Confederacy in the army, whether in the ranks or as an artisan or mechanic, laborer. teamster, cook, hospital attendant, or in any other capacity, ought to be put in service without regard to avocation or other plea. There ought to be no exemption whatever, except in the case of absolute and permanent physical disability. If by this means more soldiers are raised than necessary, it would be a very just and humane policy to grant furloughs to the old soldiers and put the young conscripts in their places."
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 22, Part 1, p.145
Care to included the entire quote.
 

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Muster Roll of the 48th Mississippi Volunteers

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"All officers and soldiers are to be taken up on the rolls as soon as assigned to the company by competent authority...and to be dropped when similarly transferred from it."

"If wounded in battle, or injured on duty--if sick, or confined, a remark to that effect, &c, &c--must be carefully stated opposite to the name of the person concerned, with every thing else necessary, either to account fully for every individual of the company--to guide the paymaster--or insure justice to the soldier, and to the Government."

View attachment 532
https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll14/id/92224/
And yet the CSA congress authorized non soldiers on the rolls, twice.
 

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There was no such thing as a "non soldier."

Anyone on the roll was a soldier.
I appreciate your opinion. Thanks for participating in this thread.
 

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It is my position that if an advocate wishes to claim a cook as a soldier, he has the right to express that opinion.

In the 1861 CSA army regulations, we find that enlisted men include a number of non-rifle toting men.
Sec. 22. The monthly pay of the enlisted men of the army
of the Confederate States shall be as follows: That of a
sergeant or master workman of the engineer corps, thirty-four
dollars; that of a corporal or overseer, twenty dollars
vates of the first class, or artificers, seventeen dollars
privates of the second class, or laborers and musicians, thirteen
dollars. The sergeant-major of cavalry, twenty-one dollars
first sergeants, twenty dollars; sergeants, seventeen dollars
corporals, farriers, and blacksmiths, thirteen dollars;
musicians, thirteen dollars; and privates, twelve dollars.
Sergeants-major of artillery and infantry, twenty-one dollars
sergeants, twenty dollars each; sergeants, seventeen dollars
corporals and artificers, thirteen dollars; musicians, twelve
dollars; and privates, eleven dollars each.
The non-commissioned officers, artificers, musicians and privates serving in
batteries shall receive the same pay as those of cavalry.
 
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