Let's be honest, you really only want to find information that supports your thesis that somehow the south was a complete victim in the Civil War. The fact you sign all your postings with FREE DIXIE makes that fairly clear. You keep quoting obscure books as if somehow because someone wrote something in a book it must be true. If you would use your common sense instead of simply trying to promote your agenda of a victimized south you might learn something. The South as you want it to be probably never existed and certainly does not exist today, and while you cling to this mythological south, the rest of the people in the south continue to move forward and think of themselves as Americans and not as Southerners. The idea of 5 to 7 percent of the southern army being comprised of black soldiers is so totally idiotic only someone like yourself, blinded by your own feelings of victimhood, could possibly believe. Next you are going to tell me there were Jewish regiments in the Nazi SS.
Re watie see below from his own prior postings on the Ranchino issue:
Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice
Posted by stand watie to capitan_refugio
On Smoky Backroom 09/20/2004 7:23:28 AM PDT · 1,565 of 3,012
"in point of fact, a doctoral dissertation done at the Univ of MN (Actually is Univ Wisconsin / Madison) by James A. Ranchino in the 1960s said that the CORRECT figure was 5-6% of southerners, which was about the same percentage as that of the northerners who owned slaves.
as i'm NOT at home & thus have no access to my library, i can't give you more documentation than that now.
i was privileged to take some grad classes under Jim Ranchino in the 1970s."
You can note watie "allegedly" took grad courses under James Ranchino but James "Jim" Ranchino 1936-1978 taught in Arkansas (Ouachita Baptist University) and lived for a time in Louisiana. Watie concurrently "went" to Tulane and Auburn for his "grad" work....neither are in Arkansas. Draw your own conclusions from the oddity of these claims.
You might want to ask him for the proof on that number now that he likely is home and can reference his library for that dissertation (not published that I can find).
you have presented us with NOT a single fact. just more & more BLATHER & BILGE.
until you've studied this subject for as many years as i have (while doing research for a book on our tribe in the WBTS), i'll keep my INFORMED opinions & leave you with yours.
OBVIOUSLY, your mind is made up & NOTHING FACTUAL will change it. PITY!
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