History is the stories we tell ourselves about the past.
These clowns couldn’t protect long standing Confederate symbols from Nikki Haley and now they want to make new politically correct monuments in some kind of lame attempt to rebrand the Confederacy as multi-cultural. This is the kind of joke conservatism that needs to stop. These clowns need to worry about getting rid of Lindsey Graham, not retarded posturing like this.
The lawmakers should have read some history before embarrassing themselves.
The South had plenty of Black supporters.
But they would not allow them into uniform.
Even the North was quite reluctant and had no integrated units.
I was watching a special on the CSS Hunley. Several crews were killed learning to use the first submarine to sink a warship. Apparently, when the Confederacy salvaged it they had to cut people up to get them out. We know this because they exhumed the graves of those men only to find that they contained mismatched body parts. That is, all but one. That’s because this volunteer was black. They were able to color match the body parts and get them all into the same grave.
Do a quick Google search and you’ll find...
Actually, Blacks did serve in the Confederate Armed Forces from the first day of the War. Just not in the Army. Blacks could be enlisted in the Confederate Navy up 10% of the ships crew. The Captain could request a waiver from the Confederate Navy Department and recruit more than 10% if he needed to. Black sailors made up about 12% of the Confederate Navy. Blacks also made up about 16% of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
There were in fact free and enslaved Blacks in the Confederate Army..
http://www.scv.org/new/contributed-works/black-confederates/
Indeed. Aren’t there more relevant political battles to fight?
Be careful with this one as there are lots of fake Civil War photos out there.
There are also several real CSA Negro headstones.
I call cultural appropriation on this one. <<<< crickets >>>>
This whole discussion thread, where others are showing there were Black CSA soldiers and sailors tells me there could be more to the belief that the secession was about states rights and less about slavery.
I really have mixed feelings over this war. Slavery IMO is unquestionably wrong. But this war is where we lost much in states rights. More was lost with the 17th amendment which transferred power to the parties.
I recall and African-American man in Virginia who took part in Civil War reenactments - must have been in the 1990s - on the side of the South since an ancestor or ancestors fought for the South.
“. . .Americans from carrying guns in the state’s service throughout the war for fear of insurrection”
Now you understand why the liberals are so united against the 2nd Amendment.
Damn good thing we have Maotin Luther Peking.
Cherokees fought for the Confederacy. That would be a cool monument.
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That is fascinating.
I wonder what they call the people who are clerks, quarter masters, grooms and so forth. Not soldiers either?
I find the author’s statement that blacks didn’t serve in South Carolina hard to believe.
I have seen Civil war photos of Black units (unknown configuration), from VA, GA and TN. They were fed and paid same as the Whites (for the most part).
If they survived, they were given their freedom.
If SC didn’t have Black units (as the North did), then I learned something new today.
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