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.
Perhaps it's the polarization of FR. Maybe it's just conservatives going one way, and the new influx of GOPer's going another way.
PS: Thanks for the info Dante3 - I'll have to look up that article.
The protection of slavery in the face of the threat that the electoral victory of the Republican party was the proximate cause of secession. Secession (and the fact that the south started the shooting) was the cause of the war.
Lincoln, if the Union was to be preserved, would have struck an agreement continuing slavery.
As he was perfectly willing to do, in the places where it already existed. Look up the Corwin Amendment. The south, however, insisted that they be allowed to extend slavery into all the territories. For Lincoln to have bent over for that would have meant that the single biggest plank of the Republican platform would have to be abandoned.
I have never stated or implied such (nor have you implied that I have).
My apologies if I've unfairly tarred you with the opinions of many of the Lost Cause brigade, but such statements can frequently be found here.
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His true rank in the reb army was Private Property Henry Henderson.
face it the ENTIRE slaughter of a MILLION people was the sole responsibility of "lincoln, the TYRANT", because he chose WAR rather than peace with the new dixie republic. it was war for PROFIT & PERSONAL POWER. nothing more;nothing less.
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don't you get tired of being RIDICULED, TROLL???
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laughing AT you.
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Who shot first?
the FREE "persons of colour" in dixie were just as patriotic to the new dixie republic as any other southerners were. in point of fact, they rushed to VOLUNTEER to fight off the invaders once the invaders came south into the CSA.
had "lincoln the TYRANT" chosen PEACE rather than war, a MILLION Americans would not have been killed for lincoln's ego.
as for the slaves, MANY "cleaved to" & supported the new dixie republic, while MANY other simply wanted OUT of slavery (who can blame them for that??)
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the TRUTH is in "many a dusty tome, in dark/dank basements" but it is there IF you choose to open your eyes/mind. frankly, you've been "sold a bill of goods" by the REVISIONIST, northeastern,LEFTIST/fascist, spin machine.
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Thanks for the spelling correction, but "series" is the correct spelling on FR.
the FREE "persons of colour" in dixie were just as patriotic to the new dixie republic as any other southerners were. in point of fact, they rushed to VOLUNTEER to fight off the invaders once the invaders came south into the CSA.
That's an excellent thesis, lacking just one thing: any evidence to support it.
had "lincoln the TYRANT" chosen PEACE rather than war, a MILLION Americans would not have been killed for lincoln's ego.
Had old Jeff Davis chosen the Republic over treason, a million would not have been killed for his greed. Had Lincoln not fought for the Union, 4 million would have remained enslaved.
Stand watie has never let a total lack of evidence stand between him and the claims he makes on his posts.
may i gently suggest that you go read BLACKS IN BLUE & GRAY by Professor H R Blackerby (published by Portals Press of Tuskegee University) before you make yourself look SILLY & IGNORANT???
Dr Blackerby was, until his untimely death, THE expert in "Confederate soldiers of colour".
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I have a couple of problems with the whole CW, for several reasons and deeply wish that the principles of the war could, somehow, be discussed w/o the ugliness of slavery overshadowing all other aspects of the multitude of causes that led to secession.
Recall that the USA was less then 75 years old when the serious differences between North and South were resulting in talk of disolvement. Many of the leaders of both sides were either children or grandchildren of our founders. Many felt a stronger saffinity for their state, then they did to the idea of being an "American". They were afterall, raised as a Virgian or a Georgian or other. Also the North was clearly exploiting the South, and thus they did have legitimate gripes.
Secondly, Lincoln's success in keeping the Union together placed our country on a path that has led to the government being the omnipotent force that it has become. Lincoln started it, FDR took it to new heights and LBJ solidified that the federal government is the all powerful, all knowing, all everything to everyone.
I also believe that the states had the right to remove themselves from an agreement, one that they had previously entered into, if that agreement no longer met their needs.
This is good. By all means, track down a copy of Blackerby's book. They're fairly cheap used, and it's only 125 pages long, of which a mere 40 are about black confederates. But Blackerby wasn't a professor at Tuskegee. He was an amateur historian whose one other book is "Great Civil War Stories." Instead he was a publisher of pulp magazines and comic books. Nor is Portals Press connected with Tuskegee University.
Don't get me wrong. I welcome your return to these threads. You have knowledge of the history of the Republican Party that could benefit us all.
Does it have big pictures for STAND to read?
The problem with that is with the exception of the original 13 states, states did not enter into an agreement. They were allowed to join, and only after the received permission from a majority of the existing states as expressed by a vote in Congress. Since the other states had a say in the entry of the new state to begin with then shouldn't they have a say in the leaving as well? How else can the interests of all the parties involved be protected?
What sort of financial restitution was offered for secession?
We never hear that mentioned by any of the confederbuddies, I wonder why?
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