GDG- Blacks at Gettysburg

[Tom Ryan]

<<In addition, I've never seen anything that indicated that the Confederates
bothered with such niceties as determining whether or not the individual
was, in fact, a runaway slave.>>

A member of the 9th VA traveling with Stuart wrote that those captured at
Rockville included both contrabands and free blacks.  Blv it was at
Mercersburg, PA where a local resident was threatened by Rebels (?Mosby's
men?) when told that some of the blacks they had captured were born and
raised in the vicinity and were not former slaves.

Tom