UDC marks another black Confederate grave

crossville-chronicle.com ^ | August 17, 2006 | By Clayta Richards / Chronicle staffwriter

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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.

[LowOiL]

Sorry, I have just now read the thread mostly in full. I am one of those that believe the truth is sorta in the middle. I do believe that there was black soldiers that fought for the Confederacy... Yes even free black men... No I don't think the numbers were 40 - 100 thousand.. but the numbers were probable a few thousand and maybe upwards of 10 thousand (free blacks).. I am sure no correct record will ever be found, as even today counting votes is still a tricky business when sinful people are involved.

I have gggkinfolks that fought on both sides (yes, both sides even from Alabama)... One family man had two sons army age, but he sided with the Union... so he told his boys to go with the Confederates and cross over when close enough to do so... There was records after the war where he tried to recoop his crops the Union had destroyed and the government had to question all his neighbors to verify his story (to recieve compensation).. got the URL somewhere, but to lazy to look it up now... BTW... none of my kin had slaves..

I also believe that my kinfolk cared little about the slavery issue, and it was a pride/homeland defense thing.. but again, hard to prove.

The root or die sideline topic proved interesting. I don't think Ole Abe would of been too worried about the former Slave owners if he had half a brain. Unless you stripped the plantation owners of their land, I don't see where they would really be hurt since the senerio of cheap labor (perhaps even cheaper than slave labor) was abundant. Without half the headache (if I can say that without being labled as a racist). Share-croppers would be the former slave owners gold mine, since they would work (and work hard) for just enough to live on.

Times were tough after the war, and people did have to root hog or die. Just like the depression years (worse on city people who could not grow crops)... I did find it interesting that the government did a welfare food line, but I am sure as sure that it could not of covered all of the south even if it wanted to (rural areas were SOL probable).

Anyhoo, final thoughts about this thread... SW is hard to read with his goofy font... and has been proven wrong a few times IMHO on various points (and hard headed as trying to drill stainless steel with a worn drill bit)... Non-Sequitur was equally hard headed in his defense of the North with blinders on their often just as apt positions of segregation and dening the Union did do some atrocities after/during the war...

But all in all, it was just one damn tough war.. and it was fought by both sides to win the best they knew how... the atrocities of the North on the South were somewhat just a sad fact of a sinful nature of man when chance presents itself. It happens and I am sure ole Abe didn't cause it no more than anyone could have. Abe was just a man trying to deal with problems the best he knew how and all of us rarely have a direct line to God to know exactly how to do things best. Mistakes were made, but I do honestly think Abe did his best to follow his heart on what was the best way.

On which side I would fight today, well... probable the South (red states areas) now that slavery is an non-issue. I just feel the North (and California) are Godless areas trying their best to put us religious Southerners under their one world big government society.

Just me rambling...

LowOiL

[usmcobra]

Fair enough, enjoy the rest of the show.

[Non-Sequitur]

SW is hard to read with his goofy font... and has been proven wrong a few times IMHO on various points...

A FEW times????

[M. Espinola]

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

That is the question you have been asked thousands of times.

Change those shower curtains too, not that Kirk will really care.

[stand watie]

in other words you "know NOT & know NOT that you know NOT."

once more i have to lol AT you.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

lol AT you!

are you trying to replace "Mr.SPIN", the FOOL & BIGOT,as our "clown-in-chief"???

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

welcome to the continuing war between blue & gray.

don't try to be a neutral here as BOTHG sides will "go after you".

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

welcome to the continuing war between blue & gray.

don't try to be a neutral here as BOTH sides will "go after you".

free dixie,sw

[usmcobra]

Tell me why Kirk Lyons defended Fred Leuchter.

[stand watie]

another STUPID/pointLESS post from FR's chief BIGOT & FOOL!

head over to DU. you'll be very happy over there.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

btw, if you don't like my typing style, just "scroll on by".

i post to suit ME & nobody else.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

because he is a LAWYER & that's what lawyers DO. in case you haven't heard, it called "practicing law".

laughing AT you!

aren't you SMART enough to figure out that lawyers represent all sorts of people, good/bad/innocent/guilty/etc.???

every passing post you spew out makes that you look DUMBER & even more IRRELEVANT.

free dixie,sw

[usmcobra]

When you go after him I'm sure you'll gum his shins to death.

But then again you did warn him that he had to take a side.

I would never do so.

[usmcobra]

Yes but isn't it strange how he always seems to be defending racists, bigots, or antisemites?

Perhaps you could direct me to all the cases he fought when he was a member of the ACLU, a link or two would help.

[stand watie]

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

perhaps instead, i'll let you do your own research. (you might even learn something, so that you look smarter.)

in case you haven't figured out, i care NOTHING for your opinions. i just laugh AT you & ridicule your POINTLESS, scalawag, views.

[stand watie]

i've known Kirk for a long time & he is PURE mercenary, when it comes to practicing law.

he would defend "wee willie klintoon" (whom he DESPISES almost as much as i do!) to the best of his ability,if the $$$$$ was "right".

do i necessarily approve of/like some of his client's?? NOPE. but then, i'm smart enough to understand that MONEY is the prime motivator of lawyers of all sorts. (otoh, you seem NOT to be that smart.)

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

"i've known Kirk for a long time.."

Birds of a feather flock together. You are a carbon copy of that bigoted Klan throwback to the Jim Crow era. You and your pal Kirk might as well be twins.

[stand watie]

every post you spew out (like so much SEWAGE) proves to everyone, who has an IQ over room temperature, that YOU are a NITWIT, a FOOL and a BIGOT of the 1st rank! (obviously, you aren't smart enough to KNOW that you are a TARGET of RIDICULE and the BUTT of jokes about "stupid people on FR".)

why not head over to DU, where those qualities are WELCOME??? you'll get to sup with wlat,jaguaretype, cvn76, #3fan & a HOST of other EX-DAMNyankee IDIOTS just like YOU!

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

"because he is a LAWYER & that's what lawyers DO. in case you haven't heard, it called "practicing law"."

Still defending the Klan ***hole, never once agreeing with the facts that he is the #1 lawyer in the entire country the Klan and neo-Nazis run to when they get bagged.

How many other lawyers in America represent the white segregationist hate groups in the same fashion as your 'good friend' Kirk Lyons? Throw out some names.

Since you at least own up to knowing this slug for many years, how many Klan or neo-Nazi rallies has Kirk attended over the years? Or for that matter closed door meetings, cookouts and and 'private Klan pow- wows out in the woods? Were you and Kirk ever in attendance together at any of these little gatherings of the neo-confederate faithful?

The first time you met old Kirk was he representing the bed-sheet brigade?

It's becoming abundantly clear the only in here which is a 'bigot' and a 'racist' is the one looking back in your mirror.