Little is known about the black men, women and children who fought for the Confederacy during the four turbulent years 1861- 1865; the loyalty of the freemen of color and the slaves who labored for the southern cause, the northern abolitionist Frederick Douglass who tried to convince Abraham Lincoln to use Black troops at the start of the war, Confederate President Jefferson Davis who knew the necessity of using blacks from the start, and the heart-warming story of the Chandler Boys - friends who fought during the war, one black, one white, yet both true Confederates. Director Stan Armstrong tells the stories of these unsung heroes of the Civil War with a degree of personal interest, inspired initially by tales told by his parents of a white ancestor who was a Confederate Captain in a Louisiana Regiment who took his mulatto son into battle with him as a body servant.

Note - This is a DVD quality version of the documentary at 1.5 GB (.mp4 format)