re: #6 Charles

Charles Dempsey, Private, Company F, 36th NC Regiment (2nd NC Artillery). Henry Dempsey, Private, Company F, 36th NC Regiment (2nd NC Artillery). J. Doyle, Private, Company E, 40th NC Regiment (3rd NC Artillery). Daniel Herring, Cook, Company F, 36th NC Regiment (2nd NC Artillery). All four men were captured at Fort Fisher, NC, on January 15,1865 and confined at Point Lookout, MD, until paroled and exchanged at Coxes Landing, James River, VA, February 14-15, 1865. All four men were treated as Prisoners of War. All four men were Black. The fact that each of these men have service records in the National Archives files (M270, go look it up) indicates they were treated as SOLDIERS from the rebel state of North Carolina by conquering Union forces. The assertion that there were no blacks that fought for the Confederacy is factually inaccurate.