Sometimes it is the ‘little things’ that tell the “big story.’ As an example, here, among Confederate prisoners taken in the siege of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, are four blacks. Keep in mind, these are POWs. Two of them are listed as “slaves” and two as “free.” “Slaves” in the Confederate army? “Free” blacks in the Confederate Army? What?! They must have been militarily significant to be sent to a POW camp. Slaves sent to a POW camp. Free blacks sent to a POW camp. There has to be more to this story.