Smile for the birdie....
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.
everyone here on these threads KNOWS exactly WHAT you are: IGNORANT,HATE-filled,half-educated,arrogant, SELF-righteous,DUMB & an outright BIGOT.
even the DYs are EMBARRASSED by your being here, much less the HATEFUL drivel & nonsense that you post.
otoh, you are WELCOMED by the southerners, as you illustrate to EVERYBODY what an IGNORANT, NITWITTED, DAMNyankee is. so,please RANT ON!
laughing AT you!
free dixie,sw
Smile for the birdie....
By now we have all figured out that you are incapable of even finding The Confederate Museum on a map of New Orleans, so asking you to back up your claims is just one more way we expose your lies.
But let's look at how your "PURE mercenary" lawyer buddy works,
Do the names Ryan Oleichi, and Melinda Hill ring a bell I'm sure they do!
From The Patriots Defense Foundation, to CAUSE, to The Southern Legal Resource Center Kirk Lyons is the white wing "PURE mercenary" lawyer willing to do anything to make money off of racism.
Why you could almost call him a white Jesse Jackson.
rave on FOOL!
free dixie,sw
laughing AT you!
free dixie,sw
So how's that book of yours coming along? You might look at vanity presses like Darla had to.
talk about "HAS NO LIFE"! laughing AT him (and anyone, who is THAT clueLESS & all-around DUMB")!
free dixie,sw
I'm not posting to you. I'm heckling you, showing all what a fool and liar you are, not to mention either a white supremacist or their dupe, based on your friendship with Kirk Lyons. Covering your ears and going "LA LA LA LA" isn't going to make me go away.
talk about "HAS NO LIFE"! laughing AT him
At least I've never posted what I just ordered at IHOP and I have a basic concept of proper grammar.
"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."
Kirk Lyons
By the way, your insane kisser cracked the lens on that last photo.
as a FReeper, you make a pretty good doorstop.
free dixie,sw
and RIDICULING you behind your back??
free dixie,sw
Facts kill you. Laugh at that Norman :)
don't you get tired of being the BUTT of most of the jokes about STUPID people on FR???
free dixie,sw
B.M. Estupido trolls these threads regularly, and has nothing to offer besides personal attacks and hyperbole. He's also been banned from other forums. I would suggest ignoring him.
at least they SOMETIMES seem to be HUMAN, which is more than i can say for you. your posts seem to be "machine generated" by a "not too well designed" robot of the REVISIONIST/hate-FILLED sort.
laughing AT you, FOOL.
free dixie,sw
"Entered service as a servant?
I think some of you neo-Conferderates are reaching."
What do you mean by this? "...reaching" There really were slaves and freedmen who entered the CSA to fight for THEIR homeland too. Some held a rifle; some cooked; but they served.
even "DUH, snake" is higher on the IQ scale (at least if "DUH, snake" is NOT a TROLL from DU, which is what i suspect.) and he is a SCALAWAG (can you imagine how little i consider his turncoat opinions???).
truthfully, i look forward to "Mr SPIN's" rants. he gives me someone to RIDICULE & "make sport of" ( one of my legion of failings is that i enjoy BLOODSPORTS.)
free dixie,sw
As a resident of one of your so called "Godless areas", I have no interest in forming one world govt's. I do however like your reasoned analysis of what must have been a very tragic war for those who lived and died through it. It's easy enough in hindsight to judge all sides, but also easy enough to have respect for what they felt they were fighting for.
free dixie,sw
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