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I was watching some videos on YouTube that sparked an interest. It showed pictures of (aged) Confederate reunion's presumably of United Confederate Veterans. In the video's it shows a number of black men a) wearing Confederate uniforms b) being in positions of honor I.e. holding the Confederate flag C) being treated like any other solider. From the age of the men I would say the pictures are 1900-1920.

I am aware of several companies of blacks being mobilized in Richmond but they did nothing more than parade. I also know Lee advocated integrated units.

I contacted both the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughter's of the Confederacy.

Their response was this: the SCV said they had never had a valid claim from a descendant of the companies formed in Richmond. They pointed out that slaves were taken into the field but again due to records they did not have confirmed combat record s thus no membership. Labor (nice phrase there.) Did not qualify for membership.

The UFC wrote me a nice letter saying they had never had "colored" members.

Si where did these black "Veterans" come from in these pictures? I can't imagine they were let In Veterans groups for fun or because they were prominent citizen's?

Ideas?
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