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Little is known about the black
men, women and children who fought for the Confederacy
during those four turbulent years (1861- 1865).
This documentary discusses the loyalty of the
free men of color and slaves who labored for
the southern cause, Northern abolitionist Frederick
Douglass who tried to convince Abraham Lincoln
to use Black troops at the start of the war,
Confederate President Jefferson Davis who knew
the necessity of using blacks from the start,
and the heart-warming story of the Chandler
Boys - friends who fought during the war, one
black, one white, yet both true Confederates.Director
Stan Armstrong researched his family history
from the tales told by his parents of a white
ancestor who was a Confederate Captain in a
Louisiana Regiment and took his mulatto son
into battle with him as a body servant. Hence,
Armstrong's interest in the unsung heroes of
the Civil War was born.
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