[Forward the Light Brigade]

This is a story that needs to be told. Blacks who elected to fight for the CSA. Their memory needs to kept alive. Race was added only after the war was over.

[Rebelbase]

[2banana]

"We need to present a more balanced history," he said, adding that the black Confederate soldier has been lost to history. "They never got recognized, but we are starting to change that," Ijames said.

And free BLACK slaveowners...

[DakotaRed]

Blacks fought herocially as did whites during the Civil War. By denying their contribution to the South, they are being robbed of a rich portion of their heritage as well as perpetrating the myth that the Civil War was only about slavery.

The South was their homeland too and they fought to preserve it.

The post Civil War era was much worse for them, I believe.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Many black men served in the Confederate army, Ijames noted. The North would not accept blacks as soldiers at first, he said, and many blacks, both slave and free, saw joining the Southern army as a way to improve their status.

He cited Union officers' memoirs of running into black rebel soldiers in battle and being surprised.

And the Confederate Battle Flag is about heritage not hate.

[dr_who]

I suppose it doesn’t fit with the trendy story line these days. Of course, I argue that it’s hard enough to see why all the poor whites who didn’t own slaves or plantations fought, but perhaps that’s the other aspect of the conflict that has been forgotten. It would be really cool to see correspondence from my ancestors back then hinting about what they thought of the war, but one side of my family was illiterate and the other side didn’t appear to have any close family members in the conflict and/or curiously didn’t save any correspondence from those years.

[Lonely Are The Brave]

http://www.amazon.com/South-Right-James-Ronald-Kennedy/dp/1565540247

http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Confederates-NS-Robert-Rosen/dp/1570033633

[OL Hickory]

Hk is a hero..I sponsored him once on on of his walks

And I’m in NJ

[OL Hickory]

In 1860 William Ellison was South Carolina’s largest Negro slaveowner. In Black Masters. A Free Family of Color in the Old South, authors Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roak write a sympathetic account of Ellison’s life. From Ellison’s birth as a slave to his death at 71, the authors attempt to provide justification, based on their own speculation, as to why a former slave would become a magnate slave master.

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/Black%20Slaveowners.htm

[WildcatClan]

fallen 13 soldiers during a ceremony off Lynch Road, on the north bank of the Neuse River

I thought this was satire when I first started reading it. The PC chattering class is going to descend on these people like flies on a fresh cow pie.