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.
free dixie,sw
>>>I suppose you have some evidence to back this up? I'm curious to see it and I wonder how they could accomplish it, especially since the confederate constitution and every state constitution in place in the confederacy at the time all had clauses specifically stating that neither congress nor the legislatures could not pass laws manumitting slaves. Legally what you claim is impossible.<<<
On March 23, 1865, General Order #14 was issued which allowed for the enlistment of Blacks into the Confederate service.
http://www.scvcamp469-nbf.com/theblackconfederatesoldier.htm
Then you do know the answer, you just don't have the nerve to admit it.
That is what seperates us as southerners, I come to the realization that defending the way the Democrats ruled the south for so many years is not in our best interests and you still want to defend their actions and abuses because you can't admit that what they did ruined so many lives.
A BILL To provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops.
SECTION 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President of the Confederate States be and he is hereby authorized to receive into the military service, any number of negro troops not to exceed two hundred thousand.
SEC. 2. That the President be and he is authorized, to assign officers already appointed, or make appointments of officers, to raise and command said troops; and the same, when raised, shall be organized as provided under existing laws.
SEC. 3. That no negro slave shall be received into the service without the written consent of his owner and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War to carry into effect this act.
SEC. 4. That it is hereby declared, that Congress does not hereby assume to change the social and political status of the slave population of the States, but leaves the same under the jurisdiction and control of the States to which it belongs.
You will note that in it the congress refuses to free the slaves for their service. If you will look up the constitutions in effect at the time in Mississippi and Virginia and Florida and Texas and South Carolina and every other southern state you would also see that each and every one contained a clause stating that the legislature would pass no laws emancipating slaves or interfering with slave ownership. So I'll repeat my question. How could slaves be promised freedom for their service if granting such freedom was illegal?
And while we're at it, I looked at that link you posted and I have another question for you. In it, they condemn Lincoln as "a racist who opposed equal rights for black people, who loved minstrel shows, who used the N-word, who wanted to deport all blacks..." Since men like Robert Lee and Jefferson Davis and Thomas Jackson were also racists who opposed equal rights for blacks, who wanted to keep all blacks in slavery, and were just as likely to use the N-word as Lincoln was, then weren't they just as racist and aren't they just as deserving as condemnation as Lincoln is as a result? If not then why not?
Let's make a bet, I say at least "scalawag" and "hater" with "D'yankee" and "spin" thrown it.
Remember "fools" are free points so I say at least 35 personal attacks before the end of the day.
Do you want the over or the under? I'll give you the choice.
"TENS of THOUSANDS of UNARMED, civilian women & children in dixie were assaulted/tortured/raped/robbed/MURDERED by the CRIMINALS under sherman. MOST of the victims were : Black (both slave & freeborn), Asians,Jews, Roman Catholics, AmerIndians, Latinos & "the poorest of the poor whites".!!!!!!lolololol
I can see it now, General Shermen issuing orders: 'Slaughter every Jew, Roman Catholic, Black slaves, free Blacks, Asians, now remember there are hundreds of thousands of Asians, AmerIndians, (no less then a million), Latinos,(that was a term used in 1864 :) Roman Catholics, the South was over run with Roman Catholics by the multible millions) and Jews, yup at least a four or five hundred thousand Orthdox & Lubabvitch all fighting for the Rebs, and of course the countless ultra-loyal divisions of confederate slaves fighting for the expansion & glory of the Slavery Republic. One side note on Atlanta - Burn baby burn! Signed General "Zippo" Sherman
PS: Make sure you get that neo-confederate nutcase who keeps screaming ""DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, haters, weirdos, REVISIONISTS, LEFTISTS for lincoln the TYRANT""!!!!!"lincoln MISadministration & it's merry band of thugs" was GARBAGE in "semi-human form"REVISIONISTS, plus just plain DISHONEST & BIGOTED lunatics,DAMNyankees,bigots,/SCALAWAG/FOOLS, DESEGREGATED CSA units, turncoats,nitwits & south-HATERS and EX-DAMNyankee IDIOTS just like YOU!!!!!DAMNyankee PROPAGANDA, a free dixie SMOOCH.
nothing more or less than that.
free dixie,sw
to Mr SPIN:head over to DU, "Mr SPIN",as they LIKE idiots, haters, cretins & FOOLS over there.
free dixie,sw
have you noticed that only "Mr SPIN" the BIGOT & NITWIT & i are the only 2 people who will respond to your ignorant, fact-FREE bilge & lies? that should tell you something.
free dixie,sw
to "Mr SPIN": don't you get tired of being RIDICULED for being a DUNCE???
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
So how do you score this last barrage?
I think he could go all the way.
By the way stand, the guy that told you abusing the shift key was a passing gear for the internet, lied.
Just so you know every word you type is converted into bits of positve and negative bytes and transmitted at the same speed.
free dixie,sw
laughing AT you. (don't you get tired of being ridiculed???)
ONLY "Mr SPIN" is regarded by other members of FR as LESS qualified to be a FReeper.
EVERYONE i know laughs AT "Mr SPIN", except one lady who PM'd me & told me that,"you should be ashamed to ridiculing a mentally challenged person." (fwiw,"mentally challenged" is "the PC term" for what used to be called : MENTALLY RETARDED!)
i do NOT think "Mr SPIN" is retarded;i think he's just a clueLESS, PREJUDICED,hate-FILLED,outright BIGOT.
free dixie,sw
= You, schlubo! lol! The reposted verbal insanity came from postings you banged out on your over abused little keyboard.
I fully agree your displayed wild outbursts of rage & imbecility are becoming rather boring since they are always carbon copies of thousands of other..."IGNORANT post(s) from FR's principle BIGOT & FOOL, ANOTHER stupid, fact-FREE, IGNORANT"....whacked out, neo-confederate screamer sw.
How long will you continue this cyber Civil War?
We can only hope so.
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