Posted on 08/27/2006 9:13:18 AM PDT by smug
UDC marks another black Confederate grave By Clayta Richards / Chronicle staffwriter
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.
i believe you are a TROLL.
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laughing AT you.
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such terms were never better applied to anyone more than you, DUNCE.
head over to DU & post your MEAN-spirited, ignorant, foolishness there.
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>>>I noticed that you completely ignored my question of how you claim that slaves were promised freedom for service could be possible.<<<
Even the liberal Ken Burns believed the blacks were offered freedom for serving in the Confederate Army (see Burn's PBS Series, "The Civil War"). Therefore, I cannot trust your knowledge or interpretation on this matter, Non-Sequiter. Nor should anyone trust anything you have posted, on any matter.
Sounds like a go-fetch activity. Can you support these claims?
You know stand I was considering trolling the DU, you might even say it was on my to do list. I had the prefect plan, I was going to call myself "General Stand Watie" and blather and bluster on about indian rights and how the white man killed all my people on the trail of tears. A real heart ripper of a troll job meant to cause the lust for liberalism to be flower in the laps of all my dear readers, and then I was going to claim I was you, the Number 1 confederfreeper.
But not any longer, Nope! now I'll never be able to troll the DU, for the simple reason that if I ever did and you found out about it you could claim I was only a DU troll to begin with.
I knew I should have taken the over...
All those men showed by their deeds and their words that they believes slavery was the best possible place for blacks while they were in the South. Lee paid passage for former slaves to Liberia, so he was certainly no foe of colonization. And I'm not aware of any quote by any of the men supporting rights of any kind for blacks.
Why not? Unlike you I've referenced my claims. I posted the actual legislation which refused to free slaves for their service. I can post the relevant passages from state constitution which showed that the legislature was legally denied the power to emancipate slaves. You want to continue to stick your head in the sand and refuse to believe facts then that is your privilege. But don't offer nothing in rebuttle and then call me a liar.
But that is the southron way, isn't it?
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it's called HYPOCRASY, sanctimoniousness, DISHONESTY & SELF-righteousness!
the UNcomfortable TRUTH is that NOBODY in the 17th/18th/19th century was "advanced" in their beliefs about race/religion/ethnicity, when compared to today.
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MANY of the northeastern "leading abolitionists" OWNED, managed, invested in companies that were IN the trade and/or OWNED slaves, right up until slavery was finally outlawed.
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Wouldn't they have been lying if they had?
the UNcomfortable TRUTH is that NOBODY in the 17th/18th/19th century was "advanced" in their beliefs about race/religion/ethnicity, when compared to today.
And yet Lincoln is the only one condemned for it. Imagine that.
For example?
i "condemn" ALL the LIARS & HYPOCRITES, especially the so-called "abolitionists", who were ACTUALLY INVOLVED in the SLAVE TRADE! (their number was, to quote the Good Book,"LEGION"!)
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Just the Northern ones, though.
BOTH butler AND the NY Times company owned blocks of stock in a company that was "up to its eyes" IN the "slave trade".
TWO major banks of NYC recently/quietly paid "reparations to" the descendants of that firm's slaves, which they owned BOTH in the USA & Brazil.(BOTH banks were STILL invested in the slave trade, when the USA & Brazil finally outlawed slavery.)
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like i said, such people/firms/corporate officers are called HYPOCRITES & remorseless LIARS!
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sorry, N-S, it is a matter of being a LIAR & a HYPOCRITE!
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Can I get a translation here?
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