Let's take another look at newspaper articles regarding the Native Guards.
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THE FREE COLORED SOLDIERS. – We some days ago mentioned that the Creole free colored population downtown had taken the war question into consideration, and determined to offer their services to Gov. Moore, for home defence. At the meeting held for this purpose, some 1500 men were present. With one voice and with the greatest enthusiasm they agreed to offer themselves, and did so. The Governor accepted them, and they are now forming companies, as their fathers and grandfathers did in 1814 and ’15. Should their services be needed, they will be among our hardest and best fighters. Jordan Noble, better known as “Old Jordan,” the Drummer of Chalmette, is raising a free colored company; and we learn a similar company is being organized in Jefferson City. When the down-town free colored men form their regiment (and it will be a rousing one.) they will make a show as pleasing to all, as it will be surprising to many of our population. We will give further particulars as the organization progresses. – New Orleans Daily Crescent. April 27, 1861
They are not described as 'Confederate' soldiers. Their service is for 'home defense'. They are not described as 'Black Confederates'
In New Orleans, there was an assemblage of over two thousand, when speeches were made – some in French, by the French negroes, that is, negroes from that part of the city where French is the only language among white and black – resolutions were passed tendering their services to the Confederate States. – Orleans Independent Standard. (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, May 24, 1861
They are not described as 'Confederate' soldiers. They were not accepted into the 'Confederate States' Army. They are not described as 'Black Confederates'
OUR FREE COLORED MEN. – Our free colored men of the Barthelemy Settlement – who are certainly as much attached to the land of their birth as any of their white brethren born in Louisiana – we are happy to say, have formed themselves into an infantry company, and have elected Victor Reaud, Esq., their commander. If ever called into the field, the free colored men of the Barthelemy Settlement – who, by-the-by, own quite a large number of slaves – will fight the Black Republican hordes with as much determination and gallantry as any body of white men in the service of the Confederate States. – New Orleans Daily Crescent, May 29, 1861
They are not described as 'Confederate' soldiers. Their service is for 'home defense'. They are not described as 'Black Confederates'
Colored Soldiers. – Col. F. L. Claiborne, of Pointe Coupee, has organized a company of eighty of the free colored men of his parish, and says his company will compete for the honor of taking Old Abe captive. – New Orleans Daily Crescent, May 21, 1861
They are not described as 'Confederate' soldiers. They are not described as 'Black Confederates'
The lack of contemporary use of 'Black Confederate' means that it is a modern term, an anachronism that somehow must square the circle of the lack of contemporary mid 19th century use. The simplest way is to have Blacks in Confederate Army units with unit designations and muster rolls in the CSA chain of command. Lacking that makes any use of the term 'Black Confederate' open to interpretation. In the case of the Native Guards, they were never in CSA service. The backdoor is to claim that Blacks in State service are really in Confederate service by reason their State is a Confederate State. Black State Confederates somehow Black Confederates. In the case of the Native Guards, they never served in a State unit only in a local defense volunteer unit and in the end, never served the State of Louisiana in a military role. Maybe they are soldiers and maybe not. One can play with the term 'soldier' all day. They are not Confederats States soldiers. Dissing credential historians is not a solution to that problem.