Hey PAhunter what do you mean skin color doesnt mean anything to you? If you think that the civil war was about slaves then your dead wrong, the war was over what the south considered unfair tariffs (taxes to you yanks (j/j)) and what the south believed was unequal representation in governtment (house and senate). Slavery was alive for the whole duration of the Confederacy while it also occured for many more years under the "stars and stripes", the emancipation proclaimation wasn't signed untill very close to the end of the war....hmmm wasn't this great country "won" for some of the same reasons (unequal representation and unfair taxes). Doesnt ignorance just tick you off? Oh and by the way Lousiana had an all black regiment that was very famous, many other states did too.