Posted on 08/27/2006 9:13:18 AM PDT by smug
UDC marks another black Confederate grave By Clayta Richards / Chronicle staffwriter
On Sunday afternoon at Old Union Cemetery in southern White County, over 180 people gathered to pay a debt owed nearly 80 years. The group included members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, family and friends, all there to memorialize the service of Pvt. Henry Henderson, a black Confederate soldier.
Henderson was born in 1849 in Davidson County, NC. He was 11 years old when he entered service with the Confederate States of America as a cook and servant to Colonel William F. Henderson, a medical doctor. Records show Henry was wounded during his service, but he continued to serve until the war's end in 1865. He was discharged in Salem, NC, age 16.
After the war, Henry married Miranda Shockley, of White County, TN. The couple raised five children.
"We're here to honor him," said his great-grandson, Oscar Fingers, of Evansville, IN. "I think he would be proud his family has come this far and to know all we have done." Several other family members made the trip with Fingers from Indiana for Sunday's ceremony.
Sons Dalton and Lee received Henderson's first and last Tennessee Colored Confederate pension check upon their father's death in September 1926. The check provided enough funds to bury their father, but not enough to buy a headstone for his grave.
The 60,000-90,000 black Confederate soldiers are often called "the forgotten Confederates," but through the concerted efforts of the Capt. Sally Tompkins Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy along with the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, several graves have been found in the Upper Cumberland and have been or will be marked.
Pvt. Henry Henderson's service was finally recognized and his grave officially marked on Sunday, all to the snap of salutes from the grandsons of fellow Confederates, volleys of gunfire and cannons shot toward the distant hillsides of his final resting place.
Official U.S. government grave markers are available to all Confederate veterans. For additional information, contact Barbara Parsons, 484-5501.
>>>According to the 1860 census there were, at best, about 23,000 free black men of military age in the entire south. Did each of them enlist 4 times?<<<
They were enlisted near the end of the war, several years after the 1860 census. The were promised freedom if they would join the CSA.
some days i laugh AT you, TROLL & some days you make me irritated.
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free dixie,sw
it's called LYING about the FACTS of the war of aggression against the new dixie republic, by the HATE-fillled elites of the north.
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Hey, someone's gotta be on the job showing you as a liar over and over again. Did you like that page from the 1860 census showing the people in Rockwall being enumerated?
That's another of those oh-so-fun Watie backpedals. "They didn't count Rockwall County!" "Oh, well, yeah, Rockwall County didn't exist, but they still didn't count those people!." What's the next line of defense? Make up some book title that you got the bad info from?
Well, they ALL know that I consider their words and presence to be rubbish. And yet, they are so ignorant, they can't/won't understand simple words in English...
It has been estimated that over 65,000 free blacks where in the Confederate Ranks. Over 13,000 of these, "saw the elepant" also known as meeting the enemy in Combat
Dr. Leonard Haynes a African-American history professor at Souththern University has stated, When you elminate the Black Confederate Solider you've elminated the History of the South.
the HATERS from the north & the SCALAWAG/turncoat from the southland ("duh snake") are REALLY filled with HATE, arrogance & IGNORANCE of the TRUTH.
pity that they don't head over to DU.
FR is supposed to be for CONSERVATIVES. they are STATISTS, who have swallowed the DY LEFTIST, sanctimonious, LIES hook,line & sinker.
their minds are tightly closed, as well.
most of the are PITIFUL. a couple of them are just plain DISHONEST & BIGOTED.
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The feeling's mutual, honeybun.
And yet, they are so ignorant, they can't/won't understand simple words in English...
It's interesting that the Lost Causers on these threads are always trying to tell the United States loyalists to go away, to shut up, or whatever, but that loyalists never seem to say that to the Lost Causers. Probably because we enjoy watching you make your anti-Americanism obvious to the public.
Still waiting for you to explain the cemetery thing. You can't, can you? You lied, you got busted, and now you're hoping it'll go away.
Yes. The, "shunned one" appears to be the most dishonest and bigotted of the lot...
otoh, "the DY coven" is divided into 4 groups:
1. the Minister of DAMNyankee Propaganda = N-S (ONLY he has BOTH a functioning brain AND a sound education),
2. the clueLESS/arrogantly IGNORANT,
3. the DISHONEST, who have learned the truth, but LIE about what they KNOW is factual AND
4. ONE outright BIGOT.
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Show me something dishonest I've said. You've accused me of being a traitor, you've lied (apparently) about the cemetery thing. Tell me what I've lied about.
so i neither know nor do i care what he spews out, as i assume it will be some combination of ignorant, silly, dishonest, prejudiced or STUPID.
sorry, i do NOT suffer fools and/or bigots well.
free dixie,sw
Galveston U-boat.
War is cruel. The rebs should have thought of that before they tried to break up the Union. There was no more slaughter than what was needed to teach the rebellious a lesson they'd never forget. Afterwards, the noble magnanimity of people like Lincoln, Grant and Sherman was much more than most of the defeated rebs expected.
Your premise is wrong, incorrect, and wrong again. Unless and until you are willing to see that the President Lincoln committed an unconstitutional act by warring against the South, we have nothing further to discuss, for this act alone, totally nullifies all the silly arguments. And, since you have already stated your repulsion towards the C.S.A., I'm guessing that we have nothing further to discuss.
So, buh...bye...
Henderson was born in Davis County, N.C., in 1849, and was a slave who was owned Dr. William F. Henderson of Williamsburg, N.C. When the Civil War broke out, Henderson was a young slave who was most likely a cook. Records on slaves and black soldiers were poorly kept, so Henderson’s background is sketchy at best. It is believed he probably fought with the Confederacy out of loyalty to his owner and because he didn’t want to be transferred to the North. He fought with the Longstreet Division, and he may have been wounded in the war. At one time, Henderson tried to get a pension for his service in the South.
“We don’t believe he ever got a pension, but he got money to help bury him,” said Oscar Fingers, Henderson’s great-grandson.
Here's a response to the Crossville Chronicle article:
How does a servant or slave enter the service? Notice that no attempt is made at telling the story from Henderson's perspective. And the reason is because his view is ultimately irrelevant as the ceremony has nothing to do with him. Claiming that he "served" provides a sufficient reason to believe that the U.D.C. is engaged in the invention of a past that it finds comforting or worth commemorating. Forget about analysis here and any pretense to trying to uncover a richer surrounding this individual.
Just remember, you too will serve the risen southland!! :)
So now we're down to 65,000? Regardless, if you look at the 1860 census data, available Here, you will see that there were at best fewer than 23,000 free black males of military age in the entire south. So I'll ask you, did each of them enlist twice?
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