You just can't win, can you, Watie? The people in the Rockwall area were counted:
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.
Including the child we're talking about in this article.
"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."
I was wondering how long it would take for the, "Evil Naysayers" to put in an appearance and make attempts to bash everything to pieces. But, as the comments show, them folks have long-since arrived...
Anyway, this is a very nice thing to do for the fallen. I also like the, Southern Belle mourning attire the ladies are wearing in the pictures. Very appropriate...
The "Evil Naysayers" can't stand to think that we in the south are proud of our heritage and those that fought for the Confederate cause of states rights.
Yeah. The "Naysayers" have become comfortable with the thought that it was good and right for Lincoln to usher his slaughter-minded army down south, to rid the union of those pesky individuals. Sounds like a bit of genocide, in order to form a more perfect Union...
You just can't win, can you, Watie? The people in the Rockwall area were counted:
Down there perhaps. Up here we call them 'slaves'. We believe in being accurate.
You must be plagued with, short-term memory. You have been branded as an evil cohort. Cease and desist with your senseless posts to me...
Gee, must have missed that part. Well, at least I'm in good company. I'll tell you what. When you post something I find to be particularly dumb I'll respond with my comments but you feel free to ignore them. That way I can show that I'm not taken in by your southron fairy tales, and you can show how you do not deign to respond to evil cohorts. How about that?
Oh come on! Army? You have problems believing that?
Like I said before, Darla's just Watie in drag. A string of lies and misstatements, then the indignant act when you call them on it.
Actually she's stand watie with a shift key.
Hey, are you a fellow evil cohort?
Hey, are you a fellow evil cohort?
No, buddy. Just take a hike. You don't make the rules...
Nor do you. I suggest you pick your tales with care, the League of Evil Cohorts are watching you.
Non-Sequitur, God bless and protect you for your service to the United States and the cause of historical truth.
Nor do you. It's fun to compare your demands that others who don't agree with you shut up with the gag rules that the south imposed on Congress during the 1830s-50s regarding the slavery issue. You're consistent in refusing to allow debate.
Oh, and I'm still waiting for you to tell about the black cemetery that was found in New York that shows Lincoln in a bad light. Either that, or I'll assume you were either just wrong--that you confused the colonial era one that closed before Lincoln was born and simply fantasized that it said something bad about Lincoln, or that it was just an out-and-out lie of the Watie school for which you refuse to be held accountable.
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