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.
Right ON!
During the war of 1861, ex-slave Frederick Douglass observed, "There at the present moment, many colored in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down and do all that soldiers may do to destory the Federal government."
Professoer Eward Smith, Director of American Studies at American University, Lead Study for the Smithsonian Institute, and a proud African American, says "StoneWall Jackson had 3,000 fully-equipped black troops fully itegrated throughout his corps at Antietnam the war's bloodiest battle. "Dr. Smith says "between 60,000 and 93,000 blacks served the Confederacy in some capacity. These black Confederate soldiers no more fought to preserve slavery then their successors fought WWI and WWII to presever Jim Crow and segeration. They fought becasue their homeland was attacked."
instead ENCOURAGE him to dance out the door to DU, hand in hand with "duh snake".
fwiw, the LOONS of DU will REALLY like those two.
btw, the last time i got a report from a friend, who watches the antics on DU, there were about a dozen EX-FReepers over there. ALL were former members of the "DAMNyankee forum of lunatics, fools, REVISIONISTS & a BIGOT".
NOT surprisingly NOT a single DU-denizen is a "good 'ole rebel"!
free dixie,sw
Makes Sense to me
your obedient servant, sw
did you read what I typed to that Yankee?
that information has been posted here before. the DAMNyankee LUNATICS have, in the past uniformly,said that(in so many words): it just can't be true, because if it is the rebels are RIGHT & we have been lied to & made FOOLS of.
one "EX-freeper DY" posted to me a couple of years ago: "IF what Douglas said is true, my ancestor fought for TYRANNY & i just can't stand the thought of him being a WAR CRIMINAL." (emphasis:MINE!)
free dixie,sw
"He's been a lightning rod for criticism ever since. In April 1993, he participated in a protest at the opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. The same year, a German rightist magazine published a lengthy interview with Lyons, who made waves with his comments about the KKK: "I have great respect for the Klan historically but, sadly, the Klan today is ineffective and sometimes even destructive. ... It would be good if the Klan followed the advice of former Klansman Robert Miles: 'Become invisible. Hang the robes and hoods in the cupboard and become an underground organization.' That would make the Klan stronger than ever before."
Uncovering the real agenda of the rabid neo-confederates once again.
Don't bother answering, just have another one of your spasms....
If blacks fought shoulder to shoulder with white confederate troops then why did the confederate soldier react so badly to black Union troops when they met them in combat? Satlville, Pillow, Olustee, Poison Spring, the Crater, the OR is full of accounts of black Union soldiers being shot down while trying to surrender, or being murdered after surrender. Why do you think that happened if blacks were accepted as equals in the confederate ranks? The same reports that mentions several thousand black men with Jackson's column also mentions the revulsion that the cofederate soldiers expressed at the idea of meeting black troops in battle. Why would the react in such a fashion if their own army was filled with black combat troops?
Emphasis Bump!
Funny how all your "correspondents" seem to have the exact same style and syntax that you do. You're not quoting the voices in your head again, are you?
laughing AT you!
free dixie,sw
could it be that you aren't SMART enough to recognize a "HIT PIECE" when you see one???
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
the SCV has many Black members (our local camp has THREE (3) Blacks & TWO (2) AmerIndians out of 49 members = 9%.)& more are joining every month.
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
don't have one??? i thought NOT!
free dixie,sw
I didn't know the NAACP was an allied organization of the SCV.
Care to explain how that works, like if you get fired as the president of the local chapter of the NAACP does that automatically mean you can apply for membership in the SCV?
Of course I do. You can also check "Black Flag Over Dixie" by Gregory J.W. Urwin or "River Run Red:The Fort Pillow Massacre in the Civil War" by Andrew Ward, which are actual books by actual authors. The are both heavily sourced with period documentation. Or you can check out what the OR says on the battles in question.
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