"Santiago Vidaurri, governor of the border states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, offered to secede northern Mexico and join the Confederacy; Jefferson Davis declined, afraid the valuable "neutral" Mexican ports would be then blockaded."
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I have not researched or cross referenced this yet. However, the few things I cross referenced about men of color in the CSN panned out.
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