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.
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.
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.
...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
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...
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.
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...
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....
Hey STAND want see a picture of me in a confederate uniform?
Is there a correctly placed comma in that whole passage? And you were a teacher?
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
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.
http://37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html
http://37thtexas.org/html/Emancipator.html
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.
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.
Well by all means join in and post what you will in an attempt to learn us something.
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.
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.
you've been stuck on stupid of this one one battle for how long?
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