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.
It's always entertaining when Watie actually cites a source. You have to wonder about his reading habits when he's quoting a hardcore feminist polemicist like Brownmiller. Evidence that he's really a DU troll?
Here's a quote to tell you where Brownmiller's coming from:
"Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe. From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear."
also, the last time i remember it was UNFAIR & "playing dirty pool" to try "to tar a person" with the sins/innocence of another person. i'm , for example, NOT responsible for YOU being a scalawag/turncoat/troll/dunce, just because i post to you.
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i note that "the nameless,shunned one" posted something to both of us.
i have NOT & WILL NOT bother to read or respond his BILGE, evasions & LIES, though i'm sure you will.
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Yeah, I'm still here pointing out your lies. Did you catch the 1860 census page showing that the people of Rockwall were counted? Chalk up another Watie lie exposed. All in a day's work for "the nameless, shunned one."
No. Just imaginary.
Turns out that Barrett is just repeating Stephens' account. Above on the same page he says, "The following reminiscences of the Hampton Roads conferrence, are taken from a Southern paper, and are understood to have been written by A. H. Stephens, or at his instance," A few paragraphs down, just above the "root" passage, he writes, "The special report made by Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, on this conference, as quoted in the article just cited from, says"...."
It was probibly in the lobby of the building where they were protesting.
That's a big difference then the way the Confederate flag has been used by white power elements.
You are jumping to conclusions here. The flag belonged to the family of the guy who wielded it.
Big difference re the Confederate flag? Well, it's true I'm not aware of any Confederate flags used to bop people. Perhaps you'd be interested in a description of other uses of the Stars and Stripes in those Boston demonstrations, that is when the protestors weren't throwing rocks and bottles at black kids.
They waved, not burned, American flags during nearly every demonstration. They consistently invoked the tradition of American liberty in their fight to retain it. Unfortunately, this sometimes resulted in a perverse blend of patriotism and racism, which culminated when a Charlestown youth literally speared a black attorney with a flag pole adorned with the Stars and Stripes at City Hall Plaza, a moment captured in a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
You and I probably agree that Democrats are much more guilty of practicing racism than Republicans.
One more Freeper Civil War endless thread argument lunacy ping!
I bought more popcorn after running out reading all the threads........
Sorry.
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I believe that I don't. But I do believe that I am well acquainted with your well known habit of wild exaggeration.
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Even more sadly, you honestly believe that people accept your posts as fact.
Stand and the rest of these die-hard neo-confederates would rather ignore the posted data on the likes of their own kind, such as KKK lawyer Kirk Lyons and his interconnections to the OK City bombing. They are willing to work with anyone, as long as it promotes their Lost Cause.
Phrase root hog or die "work or fail" first attested 1834, Amer.Eng. (in works of Davey Crockett, who noted it as an "old saying").
According to Campbell's book, Lincoln used the expression to defend emancipation against objections. It does seem strange that there'd be argument about emancipation in the last year of the war.
Given that both Campbell and Stephens allude to the phrase, Lincoln probably said it, but consider that in the final months of the war, Confederates, who we're told had been considering freeing the slaves themselves, were trying to get around the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's impatience with such talk was natural.
I would tend to agree, it was inevitable, and by this time, Lincoln was adamant - so many had died, he was determined that slavery would end. Given Justice Campbell's accounts (considered an abolutionist by many a Southerner), I'd say he would have had little occasion to lie about the conversation. Regardless of whether Lincoln were addressing whites or blacks, considering it was the union armies that had so mercilessly devasted the Southern farms, it was still a very callous viewpoint to hold.
"we are pleased you are entertained.(sarcasm button: ON.)"
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Thanks stand, it just wouldn't be a civil war thread without hearing from you personally.
You made my day...........I ran out of popcorn again btw.
RIDICULING your STUPIDITY & BIGOTRY.
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unfortunately, some of the unionists (i can think of three (3) offhand) are also brainDEAD.
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