Its not only possible, EJ, its certain. Been documented many times.

The big fact that everyone seems to be overlooking here in the rush to eulogize the "Lost Cause" is that in the south at the time, Blacks were not persons, but property.

They had no rights. They had no option of independent action. The laborers, the cooks, the "body servants", the very few that actually bore arms, etc,- any and all Blacks serving the Confederacy in any way whatsoever did so as objects, not human beings. They did so under duress, and the options they had to not so serving were punishment and/or death.

The pre-eminent "States Right" southerners fought for was the right to own property in slaves. They admitted it routinely at the time and were proud of it. Its only after the fact that the southern apologists have come out of the woodwork to re-write history in their own image.

Plenty of scholarly works out there if anyone is truly interested in the facts of the matter. I've posted some bibliographic info previously.

The Neo-Confederate movement is no less pernicious, dishonest and deceptive than the Neo-Conservative one and uses the same tactics.

Watch out for 'em.