Did Eccles Marry a Confederate Soldier?

Maggie lena walker was the daughter of a free black woman and a confederate soldier. The couple would have been legally prohibited from marrying, but there's no documentation that suggests they ever wanted to. Maggie wrote an account where she described him as qute, a writer who was writing and making history. Some describe echles cuthbert as an abolitionist, sometimes specifying that he became an abolition st after meeting elizabeth van loo.