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.
btw, the naaLcp is now nothing more or less than a "house organ" of the most extreme, LEFTIST, wing of the DIMocRATS party (which you CLAIM to despise!). that is why the IRS is about to ""pull" their "nonprofit" 501C3 status.
HKE is a charter member of the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn.
free dixie,sw
they are (at best) DERIVITIVE. at WORST they are TYPICAL of the DAMNyankee PROPAGANDA that you spread about on this forum, like so much fertilizer.
care to try again ???
free dixie,sw
But both make heavy use of documentation from the Official Records of the War of Southern Rebellion, which is THE PRIMARY SOURCE. So no, I don't care to try again.
And considering how wrong your primary sources seem to be on issues such as Lee's slave ownership, 1861 census, free black population of the confederacy, and on and on, I don't think I need to.
free dixie,sw
I imagine that I'll just have to learn to live with your displeasure.
otoh, as i've said numerous times, you are the only one of the "DY coven" that has BOTH a functional brain AND an education.
frankly, to have YOU on forum, i can live with your "spreading fertilizer", as EVERYONE onn FR knows you are nothing more or less than The DAMNyankee Minister of Propaganda. propaganda/evasions/half-truths/deception is your JOB!.
free dixie,sw
Man, doesn't he ever come up with new material? I'll bet I've read this post 500 times in the last couple of years.
laughing AT you!
free dixie,sw
don't you get tired of being RIDICULED & made the BUTT of most of the inside jokes about STUPID FReepers????
free dixie,sw
What does that make him one of twenty or one of ten blacks supporting bigots and racists like Lyons.
I'm sure that Blacks in the confederate army were there for the same reasons that Jews worked for the Nazis.....Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Brings Freedom) an empty promise if there ever was one.
Be a sport STAND and give me the link to the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn. website I can't seem to find any sort of record of it under google...
Should I look under slaveswithguns.com or confederatemysteries.com or galvastonuboatsandnessie.com
or maybe STANDmadeitallup.com
neo-secessionist?
Hey STAND would someone that wants a new confederacy and a new secession from the United States be a neo-secessionist?
and would you describe yourself as a neo-secessionist?
face it, "snake" hardly anyone believes you anymore. furthermore, hardly anyone will post to you.
time for you to hit the road to DU!
free dixie,sw
Obviouly the democrats forced the poor enslaved black people to fight. We all seen in WACO what happens when you do not obey the "master" democrat. They feared for their lives Im sure. The democrats were as mean then as they are now.
http://www.cafenetamerica.com
Hervey and his brother Harry in this picture are among the thirty so members of his organization.
The Organization labeled for their racism, intolerance, and illiteracy by one of the premiere sources for information on Blacks in the Confederate army.
Cool Picture... thanks for sharing...
If you had read this thread in it's entirety you know that I wasn't the first one to post it, therefore I didn't share it with anyone, I just identified those in it for what they are....
A pair of illiterate bigots with an agenda.
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