Black Confederates in Reconstruction Newspapers

 

In an editorial published a little over a year after the Civil War ended, a Georgia newspaper writer expressed regret that the South had not accepted “the aid of the negroes” when it was offered. He even went so far as to say “we were fools” for refusing that help, and then he went even further and credited black Union soldiers for “whipping” the South.

It was the negro troops that whipped us … and if we had not been such fools as to refuse the aid of the negroes, we should have whipped the Yankees. – Macon Telegraph, as reprinted in the Daily Southern Herald, October 12, 1866.

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