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Slaves worked in the confederate army in a support capacity however the powers that be resisted the actual enlstment of African American slaves as soldiers in combat positions until the confederacy was well into it dying breath when in In February 1865, the Confederate Congress, finally, passed an act that allowed black enlistments. Immediately, Virginia started enlisting slaves to fight for the Confederacy.There are however very few records of the service of black combat troops serving the south.

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