http://www.stonewallbrigade.com/black_confederates.htm

http://www2.netdoor.com/%7Ejgh/discover.html

http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_529.htm

http://www.jayrandolph.com/southern-heritage/blacks.htm

Even Frederick Douglass reported seeing blacks in Confederate uniforms. Maybe his eyesight was bad, or he was fond of telling tall tales.

Here's the story of a man who went to war with his master; as a free man, in later years, he attended the reunions. Why? He was certainly under no obligation to do so.

http://www.mosocco.com/florida.html

Sailors too: http://www.navyandmarine.org/ondeck/1862blackCSN.htm

Apparently there were a number of mixed-race men who passed for white and enlisted on those grounds.

There is no conspiracy, just the big picture.