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UDC marks another black Confederate grave
crossville-chronicle.com ^ | August 17, 2006 | By Clayta Richards / Chronicle staffwriter

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.


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To: usmcobra
actually, he was NOT "fired". he RESIGNED IN PROTEST because the local "naaLcp" chapter had gotten as LEFTIST as the national org. now IS.

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

281 posted on 08/31/2006 9:35:08 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Non-Sequitur
SORRY, both the books you cite are NOT PRIMARY SOURCES.

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

282 posted on 08/31/2006 9:37:39 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
SORRY, both the books you cite are NOT PRIMARY SOURCES.

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.

283 posted on 08/31/2006 9:40:18 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: usmcobra
That's a good overview of Lyons. The whole SCV thing is amazing to read about, and I'm amazed it doesn't get more coverage. Check out Savethescv.org for a lot of information about what's going on in the civil war inside that organization, the rebel chapters, the suspensions and purges, the national HQ's seizure of chapter funds. and so on. Here's one recent quote from Watie's friend Kirk: "I do unabashedly advocate that we [the Sons of Confederate Veterans] become a modern, 21st century Christian war machine capable of uniting the Confederate community and leading it to ultimate victory." Kirk D. Lyons, December 20, 2005. "
284 posted on 08/31/2006 9:41:46 AM PDT by Heyworth
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To: Non-Sequitur
sorry, but NOBODY here is convinced by your spreading of ANTI-southern, REVISIONIST propaganda, out of the most extreme, lunatic fringe of northeastern/LEFTIST academia.

free dixie,sw

285 posted on 08/31/2006 9:44:56 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
sorry, but NOBODY here is convinced by your spreading of ANTI-southern, REVISIONIST propaganda, out of the most extreme, lunatic fringe of northeastern/LEFTIST academia.

I imagine that I'll just have to learn to live with your displeasure.

286 posted on 08/31/2006 9:46:32 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
it would be nothing NEW for you.

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

287 posted on 08/31/2006 9:51:00 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
You may say your laughing at these facts concerning your Klan/Nazi friend Kirk Lyons, but on here you have been exposed Norman, exposed...
288 posted on 08/31/2006 9:57:04 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: stand watie; Non-Sequitur

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.


289 posted on 08/31/2006 10:14:55 AM PDT by Heyworth
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To: stand watie
Don't you have some beds to make, rooms to clean? Kirk and the bedsheet gang are booked for the weekend.


290 posted on 08/31/2006 11:52:27 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: M. Espinola
you are a DUNCE, who believes the most far-fetched, SILLY & outrageous bilge from the south-HATING, elitist, DIMocRAT, LEFTISTS!

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw

291 posted on 08/31/2006 2:09:23 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
laughing AT you,m FOOL!

don't you get tired of being RIDICULED & made the BUTT of most of the inside jokes about STUPID FReepers????

free dixie,sw

292 posted on 08/31/2006 2:10:34 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
HKE is a charter member of the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn.

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

293 posted on 08/31/2006 2:28:14 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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To: Heyworth; stand watie

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?


294 posted on 08/31/2006 2:37:17 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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To: usmcobra
another DUMB-bunny statement from "Duh snake".

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

295 posted on 08/31/2006 2:40:55 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

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


296 posted on 08/31/2006 2:42:42 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: stand watie
So in other words you don't have any proof that such an organization as the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn. exists other then you told us so.

Since H.K. Edgerton cannot be a member of the SCV since he has no proof that he is descended from anyone that served in the confederate army isn't also far to say that his membership in a Black Confederate Soldiers Assn. is equally as honorary or token as well?
297 posted on 08/31/2006 2:50:00 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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To: stand watie
Perhaps you were talking about the the Black Confederate Soldier's Foundation created by Anthony M. Hervey?

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.

298 posted on 08/31/2006 3:18:40 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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To: usmcobra

Cool Picture... thanks for sharing...


299 posted on 08/31/2006 4:19:54 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" - Benjamin Rush)
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To: LowOiL

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.


300 posted on 08/31/2006 5:04:42 PM PDT by usmcobra (I got my end of the world underwear on, It's totally stain proof and aluminum.)
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