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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.
Kaslin,
Why do you insist on posting articles that rely on facts and that have clear logic?
Oldplayer
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.
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.)
Bttt
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From everything I’ve read about Anthony Hervey he was a decent and honorable guy. I was hoping that williams was going to do more than simply use Hervey as a stage prop. He deserves better.
In 1860, a majority of Americans had lived their entire lives within 100 miles of their birthplace.
The “Union” was simply a concept, and very few people, North or South, had personal experience with both cultures and their geography.
I can see that economic concerns about use of the Mississippi River would be very important to the North. And I can see that national security concerns about the redrawn borders of the USA would be very important, to both sides.
But those were issues that could be negotiated and, quite possibly, agreed on by both sides.
But I find it impossible to believe that, without the non-negotiable issue of slavery, the Civil War would have ever been fought.
From a song called “Johnny Rebel”, which I heard years ago but can not find anywhere on the net:
He was the symbol of those before the gun
Who died for what they thought was right in 1861...
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The South was not economically behind as much as many think::
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/fogel.htm