-- Alexander Hamilton
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According to the 1860 census there were 58,000 free blacks in Virginia alone (659 in Pittsylvania County which Danville was a part of).
The irony of his comments is that one of his own books that he authored in 1984 titled "18th Virginia History" in the "Virginia Regimental History Series" lists one of these free blacks who enlisted in the regiment (which contained two companies from Danville and one from Spring Garden) as a drummer.
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Textbook Should Reflect Truth About Civil War
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