Black Confederates at Fort Fisher?

I got this from the January Black Confederate Warriors of Dixie blog put out by the Southern War Room and Southern Heritage News & Views.

I'm not sure where they got this information, but it is interesting, so will include it.

When Fort Fisher was captured, Union forces recorded three or four black Confederate soldiers who were paroled and exchanged exactly like the white Confederates.

CHARLES DEMPSEY-- private, Co. F 36th NC (2nd NC Artillery) Negro. Confined at Point Lookout until paroled and exchanged at Coxes Landing, James River, Feb. 14 and 15, 1865.

HENRY DEMPSEY-- same information as Charles Dempsey. Perhaps they were brothers?

J. DOYLE-- 40th North Carolina (3rd NC Artillery). Same as the first two, except paroled and exchanged at Boulware's Wharf, James River, Virginia March 16, 1865. (I found evidence of many Confederate prisoners being exchanged here.)

DANIEL HERRING-- cook, Co. F, released after taking Oath of Allegiance June 19, 1865.

I did not know that the Union was having prisoner exchange at this late date in the war.

If anyone has anything else to say about these four men, let me know.

Stuff I Didn't Know. --B-R'er