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.

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[Sprite518]

LOL! My thoughts exactly... LOL!

[Razz Barry]

That is just a silly and gratuitous statement. I doubt there was any slave in history that preferred slavery to freedom and self determination.

Let me try to relieve some of your doubts. My sister, who has studied the Cherokee of Georgia, says it was common practice for those unable to care for themselves to allow themselves to be enslaved. I, about ten years ago, studied slavery of Africa. In times of famine, Africans would sell themselves, and their children, to white slave traders to keep from starving. Today, we send them foreign aid and we have welfare. Money forced from the pockets of Americans who have no real idea what it is to be free.

Slavery comes in many forms. Everyone receiving government handouts is, in my opinion, practicing a far worse form of slavery today than did our forefathers. I really don't understand why we want to judge, so harshly, the actions of those hundreds of years ago. We have NO idea what it was like in those times. Most of us, if we had to go back in time, would never be able to survive a month.

[M. Espinola]

"(and as everyone here knows, i despise the KKK & all their works) at least they SOMETIMES seem to be HUMAN,"

Yea, murder, rape, blowing up churches, it's all real "HUMAN"

You're like Kirk Lyons' trained parrot.

In terms of revisionist history, neo-confederates take the cake in that department, U-Boatman.

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Money forced from the pockets of Americans who have no real idea what it is to be free....Slavery comes in many forms. Everyone receiving government handouts is, in my opinion, practicing a far worse form of slavery today than did our forefathers.

Yes, but whom is the slave here. Is it not the one who's pockets are being pinched. And, the one's that are receiving the money earned by the sweat of another, are they not the slave owners?

[Razz Barry]

Money forced from the pockets of Americans who have no real idea what it is to be free....Slavery comes in many forms. Everyone receiving government handouts is, in my opinion, practicing a far worse form of slavery today than did our forefathers.

Yes, but whom is the slave here. Is it not the one who's pockets are being pinched. And, the one's that are receiving the money earned by the sweat of another, are they not the slave owners?

Yes.

[usmcobra]

Let's try this one more time with gusto.....

Major Watie,

Sir:

The enemy of the United States in 1861-1865 was a bunch of Democrats that decided for reasons we could argue to the cows grew wings, to remove almost half of the area, population, and states of the United States from the control of the US Constitution and government, by force if necessary and by deception if they could get away with it.

Since you are and or were an officer in the United States Army as well as a Republican that has sworn to defend this country from all enemies foreign and domestic that would do exactly what those democrats in the south did, how can you cancel your oath of allegiance to defend this country against those that would destroy it for their own purposes and side with those who have as a stated purpose the creation of a new confederacy devoted to the ideas of the old confederacy along with a new rebellion (and as well the type of bloodshed and destruction beyond what took place during the civil war).

Or put another way, why would any one that served this country with honor commit an act of treason and seek to divide it once again for the purposes of those that only want racial supremacy?

The reason you call me a scalawag is because I am not willing to take part in a rebirth of a failed rebellion or the rebirth of the confederacy or quite honestly a return to the days when blacks and whites knew their place as defined by your buddy Kirk Lyons, nor do I wish to see the horrors of 21st century war visited upon the south so that a bunch of fools wearing gray can revisit the destruction visited upon the south because of their equally shortsighted ancestors.

Now before you start stuttering about rights, yours, the states or otherwise, what about my rights?

I am happy living in these United States, under this flag, and I am proud of the service I have performed for this country. It would seem to me that to achieve your goals of a new confederacy I would have to give up my citizenship in the United States.

I'm not prepared to do so, nor am I prepared to be a second or third class citizen because I'm not quite as white as Kirk Lyons and the rest of his cohorts are. Nor am I prepare to surrender my life, my home and my south to a bunch of wannabees whose only real purpose is racial supremacy of the worst sort.

Throughout our conversations I have always stated that I choose to honor the bravery of the individual confederate soldier and have done so for one simple reason he was unwilling to surrender his life, his home and his south to those that would destroy it to punish those lead him.

With me so far....Good here comes the big finish

They were lead by a bunch of democrats that choose the wrong way to end their issues with the United States, and in the end those soldiers and their families, not their leaders suffered the most, and I won't allow a repeat of that in this country and will expose these new Confederates for what they are every chance I get, and to do so I am only willing to surrender to the ash heap of history any symbol of the confederacy and the democrat leaders of that failed rebellion.

[stand watie]

BUMP!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

another STUPID, FALSE, hate-FILLED, comment from FR's very own FOOL & BIGOT.

when are you going to go buy YOUR robes & hood??? you are as big & obvious bigot as anyone i know.

at least the KKK-idiots are HONEST in their prejudice. you, otoh, TRY to cover yours up. sadly for you, NOBODY here is fooled.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

"snake" no matter how you TRY to disguise your NONSENSE, nobody on FR (with the possible exception of "Mr SPIN", your bosom buddy) is FOOLED.

your SOLE reason, evidently, for being on FR is to cause "problems & discord".

99% of what you post wouldn't fool my 2YO niece.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

is that YOU in the foreground???

NICE ROBE!

PITY that you believe that people here don't KNOW that you are a BIGOT. but then you are a half-wit & a FOOL.

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw

[usmcobra]

A Simple question STAND and I'm sure you can answer it for us all.....

As a private citizen, an individual, all by your lonesome, what personal right does the United States Constitution take away that the Confederate Constitution guaranteed?

You can even post a Dixie Ping for help if you are having trouble figuring it out.

[M. Espinola]

A "bigot" to you is anyone who exposes the real agenda of the neo-confederates.

[stand watie]

who cares???

you are a DUNCE, dunce.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

get the message, DUMMY. there are NO "neo-confederates" and NEVER have been,except in the IGNORANT,hate-FILLED, BIGOTED minds of lunatics & FOOLS/BIGOTS like YOU for example.

laughing AT you, FOOL.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

why not post your SILLY bilge to "Mr SPIN", your bosom buddy & "co-fool". of course you will have to use really simple words & short sentences, as he is incapable of understanding anything complicated.

otoh,perhaps he cares what, if anything, you think. i do NOT.

free dixie,sw

[usmcobra]

What?

You don't welcome the opportunity to prove how much better the Confederate Constitution was then the US constitution when it came to individual rights?

Surely given the chance to shine down upon all us haters with your encyclopedia of confederate knowledge you'd want to prove just how great things would be if the Confederacy was reborn.

So what is the one right the Confederate Constitution guarantees that the US constitution prohibits?

Here let me give you a hint, "habeas corpus"

[M. Espinola]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Stand has just made it official:

"get the message, DUMMY. there are NO "neo-confederates" and NEVER have been.."free dixie,sw

Okay, and it never snows in Alaska.... You really are beyond the delusional stage.

The neo-confederates have a real prize with you representing them - LOL!

[stand watie]

HINT. i am NOT interested in your little "games of gotcha".

play them with "Mr SPIN" the FOOL & BIGOT.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

yet ANOTHER ignorant, DUMB-bunny, meaningLESS post from FR's very own FOOL & BIGOT = "Mr.SPIN"!

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw