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.
He makes a pretty good living as a professional black confederate doesn't he?
what you do is PROPAGANDA for the DY cause.
free dixie,sw
the commission of atrocities was a PLANNED part of the union war plan. NO other rational possibility exists.
free dixie,sw
face it, the war from the point of view of the "lincoln MISadministration" was ONLY about POWER & MONEY.
free dixie,sw
he is of VERY modest means.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Have I woke up in the Twilight Zone?
The northern yankees, who fought to end slavery were all bigots and the southerners, who fought to continue slavery were "enlightened".
Newspeak.
You only refer to northerners as "damnyankees' - but it's the north that is "hate-filled".
Physician - heal thyself.
Sorry - you are over a hundred years too late. There IS no C.S.A. - there is only the U.S.A.
That's what the war was about and your side lost - 140 years ago. Now get over it.
Tell us again about the "hate-filled" yankees.
When you have to stoop to namecalling - your side of the debate loses all credibility.
Now answer the question.
Lincoln and the Congress made it abundantly clear that they fought to preserve the union - slavery would have remained intact. West Virginia was admitted as a slave state. Hundreds of blacks were murdered/lynched in NYC when yankees learned that Lincoln wanted them to die for blacks. Yankees wanted their states and the territories free from blacks, and had enacted laws to keep blacks out. Lincoln continously advocated for blacks to move to Africa/Central America.
DAMNyankees (as i've said repeatedly on FR) are the HATE-filled, SELF-righteous, sanctimonious, ignorant, LOUD-mouthed, MINORITY of northerners.
DYs comprise no more than 15% of the total northern population, BUT they are REALLY HATEFUL, MEAN-spirited & "noisy".
free dixie,sw
And what issue initiated the discussion on states rights?
didn't they tell you in school that NORTHERNERS were about the same PERCENTAGE of the slave-owning population, as the percentage of persons who were slave-owners in dixie???
was the SLUAGHTER of the women & children of the southland OK with YOU, especially since a LARGE percentage of the total were "persons of colour" (both slave & free), Jews, Roman Catholics,Asians, Latinos & "the poorest of the poor" whites???
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
If stand waite couldn't resort to name calling he couldn't post at all.
A little further down the link, there's another quote: "Send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But free them and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit this." Now this quote is actually a cut and paste job. Here's the full paragraph from which its parts were taken:
"When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,-to their own native land. But a moment's reflection would convince me, that whatever of high hope, (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible. If they were all landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; and there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough in the world to carry them there in many times ten days. What then? Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if, indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South."
Here's a bit more from the same speech
"I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong; wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska-and wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world, where men can be found inclined to take it."This declared indifference, but, as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty-criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.
Another quote given on the page is Lincoln's "Root, hog, or die." line, allegedly said to Alexander Stephens. For this the citation is Stephens' A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States. That book is available in its entirety online here, but I can't find that bit anywhere. Maybe you can. Lots of great defenses of slavery, though, like this:
I say Slavery, so-called, because there was with us no such thing as Slavery in the full and proper sense of that word. No people ever lived more devoted to the principles of liberty, secured by free democratic institutions, than were the people of the South. None had ever given stronger proofs of this than they had done, from the day that Virginia moved in behalf of the assailed rights of Massachusetts, in 1774, to the firing of the first gun in Charleston Harbor, in 1861. What was called Slavery amongst us, was but a legal subordination of the African to the Caucasian race. This relation was so regulated by law as to promote, according to the intent and design of the system, the best interests of both races, the Black as well as the White, the Inferior, as well as the Superior.
free dixie,sw
You must post with a barf bag super glued to your face then.
Feel free to admit one thing at least, scalawag or not I am your better at this game any day of the week.
Is it possible that DiLorenzo got it wrong? Color me surprised.
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