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UDC marks another black Confederate grave
crossville-chronicle.com ^ | August 17, 2006 | By Clayta Richards / Chronicle staffwriter

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.


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To: PhilipFreneau
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.

I suppose you have some evidence to back this up? I'm curious to see it and I wonder how they could accomplish it, especially since the confederate constitution and every state constitution in place in the confederacy at the time all had clauses specifically stating that neither congress nor the legislatures could not pass laws manumitting slaves. Legally what you claim is impossible.

121 posted on 08/28/2006 3:40:16 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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.

Evil Cohort Non-Sequitur reporting, ma'am. I for one will be more than happy to admit all that you have claimed, if first you can present to me a competent authority that ruled Lincoln's acts unconstitutional.

122 posted on 08/28/2006 3:43:17 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: stand watie
...up there, Mr Minister of DAMNyankee PROPAGANDA, you call everything, that is FACTUAL and which makes the DAMNyankees look BAD, something other than what it TRULY is.

...just stopped in to read the posts. THE ABOVE is hilarious, even if I am a DAMN Yankee Ma'am :)

PS Have any of you Southern Historians heard of this guy? L Col William H. Luse

123 posted on 08/28/2006 3:49:59 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Non-Sequitur

COMMON SENSE is the authority, of which you apparently, have lost yours. So find it! Furthermore, I could care less about you or anyone else admitting the truth about anything in regards to what I have said. As I do not hold up another person, in the place of God. The blatant truth of Lincoln's complete contempt and utter disregard for human beings who lived in the South, TELLS THE TALE...


124 posted on 08/28/2006 3:54:28 PM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
see the d'yankee idiots are on your case just ignore them , their just trying to find some one to talk to no one at home will
125 posted on 08/28/2006 3:57:34 PM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
Furthermore, I could care less about you or anyone else admitting the truth about anything in regards to what I have said

Perhaps if you provided a shred of evidence for anything you said we'd have a bit more respect.

I swear, I miss Nolu Chan sometimes. At least he did the research and put up the documents to support his case. The rest of you characters rely on assertions, bluster, and the vain hope that you won't get called on your lies.

126 posted on 08/28/2006 4:03:03 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: righthand man

Thanks, and I more than likely will. But, my thoughts are that they'll talk themselves into a corner, and show everyone their stupidity. Mostly, talking, just to hear themselves talk. Many say, that is the out-of-control ego...


127 posted on 08/28/2006 4:03:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
Many say, that is the out-of-control ego...

And here I thought paying a vanity press to put out your novel was a clear sign of ego run wild. Maybe if you knew how to use commas correctly....

128 posted on 08/28/2006 4:05:54 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: stand watie

Hey STAND want see a picture of me in a confederate uniform?


129 posted on 08/28/2006 4:32:28 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
But, my thoughts are that they'll talk themselves into a corner, and show everyone their stupidity. Mostly, talking, just to hear themselves talk

Is there a correctly placed comma in that whole passage? And you were a teacher?

130 posted on 08/28/2006 4:45:12 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
they need a lesson from my old teacher in school , " shut up and listen you mite learn something " .

With all the evidence that is put before them they don't read it or maybe they can't comprehend the meaning of the words

Don't worry about the spell checkers they do that to start changing the subject. they don't like the truth about their so called saint lincoln

131 posted on 08/28/2006 4:55:09 PM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: righthand man
they don't like the truth about their so called saint lincoln

Perhaps you'd like to present some of this "truth" of which you speak. If it's anything like Darla's cemetery bit, it'll be good for a laugh.

132 posted on 08/28/2006 5:06:06 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: Heyworth
do a little reading

http://37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html

133 posted on 08/28/2006 5:13:33 PM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: Heyworth
forgot to give you this one great quotes here:

http://37thtexas.org/html/Emancipator.html

134 posted on 08/28/2006 5:15:45 PM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
COMMON SENSE is the authority, of which you apparently, have lost yours.

So you are talking to me! How nice. But with all due respect common sense says to rely on those tasked with determining what is constitutional and what is not. Lincoln was faced with a rebellion. Constitutionally the government is granted the power to call out the militia to suppress rebellion, either by Congress in accordance with Article I or by the president if Congress is not in session in accordance with the Militia Acts.

Furthermore, I could care less about you or anyone else admitting the truth about anything in regards to what I have said.

A difficult task, you have to admit, given the nonsense you persist in posting.

The blatant truth of Lincoln's complete contempt and utter disregard for human beings who lived in the South, TELLS THE TALE...

According to all the myths of the Lost Cause.

135 posted on 08/28/2006 5:28:37 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
But, my thoughts are that they'll talk themselves into a corner, and show everyone their stupidity.

Showing your posts up for the nonsense that they are is hardly stupid. And as for talking us into a corner the more apt analogy might be that we talk rings around you in the debates. Which you refuse to participate in anyway.

136 posted on 08/28/2006 5:30:53 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: righthand man
they need a lesson from my old teacher in school , " shut up and listen you mite learn something " .

Well by all means join in and post what you will in an attempt to learn us something.

137 posted on 08/28/2006 5:32:01 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: righthand man; Heyworth
2. In addition two black "regiments", one free and one slave, participated in the battle on behalf of the South.

Let's start here. Here is a Link to the Confederate Order of Battle for the First Bull Run. Every regiment and their brigade is listed. Please point out to me the two black regiments. Extra credit if you can tell me which was the free one and wich was the slave. Go ahead. Learn me.

138 posted on 08/28/2006 5:35:33 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I submit that even historically the Romans and Jews did not consider one to be adult and able to enlist or mary before age 13,hence an 11 year old ,whether slave or not,did not voluntarily enlist.

But like millions of conscripted soldiers of all sides he had little choice.

Do not forget the British practice of impressing able-bodied men into the King's Navy.And once on board a ship they were forced to swear oaths of obedience on pain of death and treated barbarically.

The leaders of the North executed dozens ,perhaps hundreds,of young men who attempted to escape the slavery of involuntary servitude in Lincoln's army.

I believe A. Lincoln was the first president of the United States of America to institute miltary slavery.

139 posted on 08/28/2006 5:44:30 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Let's start here. Here is a Link to the Confederate Order of Battle for the First Bull Run

you've been stuck on stupid of this one one battle for how long?

140 posted on 08/28/2006 5:46:47 PM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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