Clayburn's Proposal for Leadership of the Western Army

The best officer west of the Mississippi was blacklisted, as it were after publishing this memo. The USCT became a very effective force in the later years of the war. There's a long, long history of slave states recruiting their slaves to fight their wars. But they were just too dumb to do it. As Clayburn had warned the Confederate elite, if they didn't find a way to use their black population in spite of their racist ideology, they would lose.