Three things:
1 They followed a leader who lost an eye due to a negligent discharge. They facing a couple decades in federal prison for following a dickhead.
2 They're facing charges in Washington, DC! Those juries are mostly, if not completely black - even with gentrification.
3
I disagree with you. I got into it at a conference over research I found that proved differently. No, there were several black regiments that march from New Orleans and fought for the confederacy. A lot of enslaved brothers were the replacement soldiers for their white confederate owners. White historians try to hide that shit, but the true is real. It was a lot of black slave owners in Louisiana and a few in Mississippi that are historically documented.
Bruh, it's not a matter of disagreeing. Southern KKKrackers know that slavery was wrong, and are defensive about what their ancestors did. They will latch on to anything to try and deflect from the truth: Slavery was wrong, the United States is hypocritical to have been founded on "all men are created equal" while there were slaves, they are embarrassed by the fact that they went to war against the United States to defend the institution (every single state's declaration of war against the United States said they were doing it because of slavery) and they wanted to extend the practice of chattel slavery westward.
They cannot defend the indefensible. So they throw up such bile, all of which have been explained. It was the Confederacy's law that a soldier who owned a slave could bring the slave along to clean and dig. Those Black men were often captured by the North and reported that they were there against their will, or escaped as soon as they could. There is one - repeat, one - photo of a black man in a confederate uniform, and judging by the smiles of the secessionist soldiers around him, they were having a good time laughing at him.
As for the New Orleans regiments, you neglected to say they struggled to fill those units - 35 guys is not a regiment, and you have to ask how long did those units last and what did those units do: It was only a matter of months and they were never trusted to be on the frontlines. Lastly, the US Army arrived three months after the "regiments" were created and they promptly surrendered and volunteered for the US Army, wherupon their ranks swelled as the Creoles of southern Louisiana had no doubts about where they stood with White people.
Lastly, two months before the war finally ended, and the campaign restarted after the winter frost and snow, the Confederate congress DID approve the creation of Black units. That's after 500,000 southern white boys had been killed and there was no hope of winning. The congres had debated arming Black men (as opposed to the Louisana Creoles, which was a local Louisiana decision) but it had been rejected several times.
Lastly, if you continue to say the above, you are lower than Candace Owens, Clarence Thomas and the Black man that stands behind Trump at every rally with the "Blacks For Trump" sign. Or you are a white man, here to provoke us.