Are you saying that Traveller wasn't buried with full military honors at Lee's Chapel?
Traveller at least got his own tombstone before the UDC got around to providing them for Black Confederates.
Posted on 08/31/2006 9:07:31 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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.
Are you saying that Traveller wasn't buried with full military honors at Lee's Chapel?
Traveller at least got his own tombstone before the UDC got around to providing them for Black Confederates.
What I learned I already knew, your cowardice and duplicity knows no bounds.
Yes Traveller was honored before , In the last few years more families research their history and they find out the truth ,The Sons and daughters of the Confederacy honor the black and white as they find where they are buried , One my own G.G. grand-father was honored back 2002
one case in particular is the case of Mr. H.K.Edgerton ,I know him personally ,I met him on hwy-80 just outside of Selma,Al. when he made his walk from N.Carolina to Texas.
This conscription order is still in force. Men have been seized and forced to enlist ...
You're not all there cakeboy.
The Union Colonel must have been mistaken -- for of war and all that -- as there is no record of any dead black rebel soldier or black POW or pensioner or any black regiment. Show me any factual evidence from any of the many Forrest biographers. Among all the record or the Confederate army in existence, no one has ever found a record of those (non-existent) black regiments. You mean to say that Nathan Bedford Forrest, murderer of dozens of black Union POWs and future Grand Dragon of the KKK, had black soldiers? Ridiculous!
Not a credible source.
My viewpoint was clearly stated in an above posting to you and you still have not understood it.
There is no need to respond as I am not interested in carrying this conversation further with someone so devoid of basic skills of understanding.
don't you get tired of being laughed AT???
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head over to DU & sup with the other PHONY conservatives, like "wlat", "#3fan", "cvn76", "jaguaretype" & a host of other DAMNyankee/SCALAWAG, EX-FReepers who are also LOSERS!
btw, it should tell you something that ALL the EX-Freepers on DU are formerly "members in good-standing" of "the DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, weirdos, REVISIONISTS, turncoats & FOOLS".
NONE of "the DU-crowd" are "good 'ole rebels" from FR!
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i'm right here.
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he's just another "WLAT", who i predict will soon be over on DU with the other SCALAWAGS, PHONY conservatives & lunatics (who USED to be FReepers) whining about "how awful FReepers are".
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which are you????
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IF you understand that evasions,1/2-truths & denials of the TENS of THOUSANDS of atrocities committed against the UNarmed, civilian women & children of dixie, that he denies the documented,PREMEDITATED, slaughter of CSA prisoners of war on a WHOLESALE basis AND that DECEIT is his JOB, you'll get along FINE with The Minister.
fwiw, N-S is the ONLY one of "the DAMNyankee coven" who has BOTH a functioning brain & an education. i can "deal with" N-S, as he at least is NOT a FOOL & a BIGOT.
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The poster does seem to have some problems with both recognizing the holes in his arguments and with leaping to conclusions based on his erroneous assumptions.
My guess would be that he admires Grant as military strategist over Jackson, and Sherman as gentlemen over Lee.
Thanks again and cheers to you!
Wrong.
Sons Dalton and Lee received Henderson's first and last Tennessee Colored Confederate pension check upon their father's death in September 1926.
1926? Reeks of revisionist horse$hit.
The upstanding citizens are those who organized and participated in the memorial service. I can't think of a more worthy cause than to remember our servicemen and women.
Fred Phelps, Sheehan, and other opportunists use funerals for political exploits; some folks on this thread are doing the very same thing.
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