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To: Grand Old Partisan
Pegram was only a major, yet you insist his unit was a division, not a batallion.

First you object to it being labelled as a battallion, which is what the papers described it as. Then you object to it being labelled as a division, which is what several histories refer to it as. Put differently, you have created a no-win scenario in which no reference, regardless of its historical accuracy, suffices to meet your absurd and unattainable standards of "proof" for the existence of black confederate soldiers.

Fine with me though. If both of these terms are so objectionable to you I'll yield the floor and let you pick one of your own. Tell me, Partisan exactly what would you have me call either of those two units? Do you want me to call them the Winder-Jackson large-mass-of-men-who-walk- around-with-guns-and-shoot-things-on-command? Or how about leaving off the reference entirely and calling them the Pegrams and the Winder-Jacksons? The choice is up to you since it remains obvious that no other for of reaching a proper title will satisfy your asinine and petty demands.

521 posted on 01/11/2004 7:23:54 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist; Non-Sequitur; Grand Old Partisan
[Partisan, 410] compared to the blacks rebels of the "made up" kind.

[Partisan, 436] One cannot dishonor men who DID NOT EXIST.

[Partisan, 436] Confederate law expressly forbade black soldiers until March 1865, and none then saw combat.

These are not statements that are refuted by a matter of degree. Partisan and Non-seq bitching about what the South chose to call this or that organizational unit must be their way of admitting participation in a shameful and obvious falsehood and apologizing for it.

Well guys, apology accepted.

523 posted on 01/12/2004 8:53:09 AM PST by Gianni
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