Charles, take that chip off your shoulder and do some research....start will Walter Williams, a very sharp black professor at Geo. Mason U.  Check "blacks who fought for the confederacy" (Yes, there were black slaves who fought, but there were also FREE southern blacks).  Slavery was an "economic" issue,  as there were free blacks who THEMSELVES owned slaves.  I'm just stating facts.  I'm not the one denying reality, or history.  Blacks fighting for the south did so for their homes, their families and their state.  Maryland, Delaware, Missouri,Kentucky, West VA, and NJ were all slave states and remained in the Union.  Northern slave sales were actually taxed by the IRS beginning (I believe) in 1862 to support the war effort.  It wasn't until 1863 AFTER the Emancipation Proc. that the Union army began accepting blacks.  The ONLY black who fought at Gettysburg was a confederate from Louisiana..who lost an arm at Cemetery Hill.  I KNOW what I'm talking about.  Do your own research!