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.
In my genealogical searches, I have found several family members that did.
And once again we see the difference between a rather lame joke and an action. Four weeks to the day after the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln signed the Freedmen's Bureau Act, which gave out 15 million meals over its aborted lifetime.
Why not read Thomas Sowell's 'Race and Culture'. Particularly chapter 8 (begins on page 188 if memory serves). Fascinating reading. Just in case you don't know, Dr. Sowell is black, and the chapter deals with slavery throughout the ages.
Mr. Hunter said that, after wringing his hands in woe, wondering who would plant the crop and harverst the results since no self respecting white person would do that. Lincoln saw right through that when he noted that Hunter had far more experience with the slave system than Lincoln did. Hunter wasn't concerned with the freed slaves, other than to give them lip-service. He was worried about him and his kind. And Lincoln correctly pointed out that they would now have to change their ways and perform tasks for themselves. They would have to root or die.
Stephens' version talked about the old and infirm and women and children as not being able to take care of themselves.
No doubt life would be harder for them without their chattel to do the work for them. But sorry, I can't muster any more sympathy for the former slave owners than Lincoln could.
I'm well aware of the fact that Dr. Sowell is black.
So what are you really trying to say, that he approves of slavery, that he approves of the confederacy?
Something you have shown very little recognition of.
According to Lincoln what Hunter said was, "...substantially, that the slaves, always accustomed to an overseer, and to work upon compulsion, suddenly freed, as they would be if the South should consent to peace on the basis of the 'Emancipation Proclamation,' would precipitate not only themselves, but the entire Southern society, into irremediable ruin. No work would be done, nothing would be cultivated, and both blacks and whites would starve!" My goodness! No work would be done? Nothing would be cultivated? Starvation? Who did the work? Who cultivated the crops? Not Mr. Hunter and his peers, that's for sure. Otherwise why the fears? The slave labor did the work, that's who. They would be able to fend for themselves better that people like Hunter unused to actual manual labor. Hunter would have to roor. Or die.
I guess they didn't root hard enough, huh?
Youyr gloating over the starvation death of an old woman and two small children is beneath contempt.
enough already.
like i said before, since nobody but "Mr SPIN" & i will respond to your FOOLISHNESS, that should tell you something IF you are 1/10th as smart as you seem to think you are.
why not head over to DU & post your NONSENSE to the other EX-FReepers from the DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, haters & BIGOTS, who reside over there.
you should further note that NOT a single member of "the rebel contingent" is on DU.
free dixie,sw
Where are all these people that you say think I'm hilarious?
No, seriously, you can't even get your bestest confederbuddies to try and take me out for you, much less get any one else here to tell me to join you at the DU, so why should I?
One more question since I know you love them so much.
What is the Democratic underground paying you to recruit freepers for them to record those freeper's e-mail addresses and IP's before they tombstone their accounts?
IF you are so "wunnerful, wunnerful" can you tell me why nobody except "Mr. SPIN" & i post to you??? (MOST don't want to be "tarred with the same brush" with "Mr SPIN" & "Duh snake".)
"Mr SPIN" is BOTH a FOOL & a BIGOT. i enjoy RIDICULING both of you nitwits.
lol AT you!
free dixie,sw
We both know the answer which is why I so enjoy asking you the question you refuse to answer.
head over to DU & take your buddy "Mr SPIN" with you, as you dance out the door.
you will NOT be missed on FR, but you will fit in just FINE on DU.
free dixie,sw
Do they hate democrats as much as I do?
trolls are NOBODIES in my book, as they are just interested in making waves for NO good reason. that seems to fit you PERFECTLY.
lol AT you.
free dixie,sw
Osama bin Laden made the comment that he did not distinguish between those that were in the military and civilians - your pathetic comment proves you're just another Islamo-fascist liberal whackjob. Celebrating the death of innocents? I'll bet you little ol' heart just swelled with pride when your buds slammed planes into the Pentagon, Twin Towers and a field in Pennsylvania. You are disgusting.
Here is a famous picture for you (it might be copyrighted so I'll just provide the link). The guy who got attacked with a flag ended up covered with blood. [Flag used in attack and Story behind the photo]
Chalk it up to skepticism over the accuracy of your claims more than gloating.
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