Yes I would be happy to, and/or their descendants.
Would you make those arrangements for me?”
tonka_truck,
The link below is for the slave narratives held @ The Library of Congress. If you read enough of the narratives, you can make your own arrangements and eat your own grits while you’re at it. I provided an excellent link earlier today. Sometimes if you read the links and follow them thru to different links you might learn something. For you see, I’ll post another link for you after while. It’s a link to Americans who take a dim view of thier black Confederate SOLDIER ancestors service being dismissed by other Americans.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmemory.loc.gov%2Fammem%2Fsnhtml%2F&rct=j&q=slave+narratives+library+of+congress&ei=E0TWS5LLFJO-8wSE1NGzDw&usg=AFQjCNHXIo9Zs4y34ek3aHug6BWwKG120w
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And if you follow the below link you’ll find these words:
“In fact the very first memorial in the nation’s capitol to honor black Americans’ military service is the same Confederate Memorial, designed in 1914 by Moses Ezekiel, a Jewish Confederate.”
“A black confederate soldier (4th from left) marches in the same ranks with other confederates)”
And last, but not least, there is also historical record of who was considered a soldier. I’m sure you’ll be surprised to learn it includes more than just those who carried arms. I’ll provide that link after while too.
Oh and, tonka truck, one other thing before I’ve got to go for awhile; You might want to check into the federal government (Union) refusing to provide grave markers for the black confederate soldiers. Not that the federal government (Union) provided grave markers for any of the Confederate soldiers, but the black widows often couldn’t afford anything to mark their husband’s graves and the federal government (Union) wouldn’t provide the deceased with a marker at all if they had served under the Confederacy. So, some of those graves went without markers for quite some time. Mighty nice of them, huh?
Revisionist history/partial history is beginning to come unraveled. The truth has always been there but there were those who didn’t want it to come out.
Tonka_truck,
As I told you earlier that I would provide more links, here’s a link to Americans who take a dim view of thier black Confederate SOLDIER ancestor’s service being dismissed by other Americans. Make sure you read the newspaper article and who he was marching for.
http://www.phalange.com/blakneo2.htm
There are other links I’ll post tomorrow. This is just one of the milder stated ones.
I’ll get you the other link, for who was considered a soldier tomorrow also.
And, if you read enough of the slave narrative’s, which I’ve already provided a link for, you’ll find some of their stories corroborate their own heroic service for the Confederacy. So, as I stated earlier, you can contact their ancestors themselves to let them know their loved one’s weren’t really soldiers after all. HA! I suspect they will know you’ve been reading revisionist history or that you are simply a rude person.
State archives are excellent reasearch tools if you ever want to get off your “grits” and review them. It takes a little time but you can produce your own evidence of black Confederate soldiers......if you truly wish to find them instead of just denigrate their service.