Posted on 01/20/2016 5:03:47 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrats are working on that even as I type this.
Black in the Confederate Army serving as soldiers was a fact of history that I never knew was in dispute or even controversial until I started visiting Free Republic. There are some real revisionist liberals on this site.
Beat me to it; it's already happening now.
It’s a fact which the left and blacks ignore as it does not fit their narrative of the south.
Course they ignore the racism in Boston , NY City Detroit during then and recently.
I’m sure someone , usual suspects will be on to denounce this .
Kaslin,
Why do you insist on posting articles that rely on facts and that have clear logic?
Oldplayer
Anyone got a photo where fairy boy refused to put his hand on his heart and when asked he said the flag stands for intolerance.
Thanks for posting! I am hanging on to my American History textbooks from college (40 years ago) for precisely this reason.
The fact that the Confederate Army was integrated was never controversial or even thought about as significant, it just was. But here on Free Republic you’d think you were a historical heretic to even imply such a thing.
Shermans Army burned down slave cabins too. Everone has got to eat.
Got a great history book from the 50’s which is about the war, but recently I read another book about the war written just a couple of years ago and it’s like reading a different war.
North good, went to war to free blacks.
South bad, hated blacks wanted slavery forever.
No facts, all a fairy tale and this is now what kids read sadly.
Well except mine as I have been telling them history and politics since they were 5.
Oh and my oldest is off to register to vote today after school.
does he think or does he use fact?
guess if you want to ignore fact then so be it.
I have a weird hobby, but I find it fascinating to wander through old cemeteries. Lot of history there. Unfiltered history.
While wandering through the “Odd Fellows” Cemetery in Aberdeen Mississippi (Described as a “Quiet resting place for many Civil War veterans”) I found a grave of a black Confederate soldier. He was identified as Nathan Bedford Forrest’s favorite blacksmith.
Yeah, THAT Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Wizard of the Saddle and a founder of the KKK. (Another interesting history that has been perverted. At least the history pre 1880)
The 1st Lousiana Native Guard was an all black regiment of the Confederate Army. Unlike the Union’s 54th Massachusetts which had white officers, the Confederate units had black officers.
(a side note, there were 2 1st Louisiana Native Guards, one Union and one Rebel.)
If you ever come to St Augustine here you will see many old graveyards as we are the oldest city in the country, but there are also 5 black confederates buried here.
I had family on both sides of the campaign at Vicksburg.
Henry Louis Gates on black owned slaves
440,000 free Negroes in the South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8EhhbTs0A
I never this fact was even controversial until I started coming here.
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