Posted on 08/25/2010 7:20:44 AM PDT by Michael Zak
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) authorized his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, to "arm, uniform and receive into the service of the United States such number of volunteers of African descent as you may deem expedient." African-Americans had already been serving aboard U.S. Navy ships.
During the Civil War, 210,000 African-Americans, three-quarters being southerners, served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
Sheehan has a page of contributions on Lew Rockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sheehan/sheehan-arch.html
Thank you. That certainly explains a lot!
Bigotry was the cornerstone of Southern culture in 1860 and it continues to be the cornerstone today.
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