America's Civil War
History 393
Study Questions
Professor John C. Willis
 
 
Confederate Collapse

 

1.  How do you explain the Davis administration's complete policy reversal on the question of African American soldiers for the Confederacy? 

2.  Did the Confederacy's willingness to enlist blacks as soldiers in 1865 suggest a waning of racism?   Does it prove the war was not about slavery? 

3.  Why might Virginians favor enlisting former slaves for combat, while South Carolinians opposed the measure?