title: BLACK CONFEDERATES IN SOUTHERN ARMIES: A Collection of Historical Accounts
author: J.H. Segars
description: Readers will encounter selections drawn from a wide variety of reliable sources to include newspaper articles and veterans' narratives. -- <i>Publisher</i>
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  # With Lee in Virginia: A Story Of The American Civil War
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### G.A. Henty
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  My Dear Lads:
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of
  
  
  America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it
  
  
  was a struggle between two sections of a people akin to us in race
  
  
  and language, but because of the heroic courage with which the
  
  
  weaker party, with ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-equipped regiments, for four
  
  
  years sustained the contest with an adversary not only possessed of
  
  
  immense numerical superiority, but having the command of the
  
  
  sea, and being able to draw its arms and munitions of war from all
  
  
  the manufactories of Europe. Authorities still differ as to the rights
  
  
  of the case. The Confederates firmly believed that the States
  
  
  having voluntarily united, retained the right of withdrawing from
  
  
  the Union when they considered it for their advantage 