Confederate Memorial Day will honor soldiers who sided against the Union

staugustine.com ^ | 18 April 2003 | PETER GUINTA

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[Pern]

Prepare for Confederate-bashing Walt to make an appearance and enlighten you to the evils of the Confederacy.

[TomServo]

Well, you know who this will P.O. Thanks for the ping, Stainless!!! Interesting article...

[sultan88]

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[Grand Old Partisan]

It is nonsense that there were blacks in the Confederate army. Such was specifically prohibited by CSA law until March 1865. Sure, a slave here or there, in the first monnth or so could have accompanied his master to war, and even been stupid enough to shoot at U. S. troops. The only two regiments of blacks soldiers raised for the rebellion were in Louisiana in 1861. The rebels refused to accept them, whereupon they enlisted in the U. S. Army under Ben Butler.

BTW, under Confederate rule, for the "crime" of possessing a U. S. flag, John Masters would have been hanged.

[let us cross over the river]

Thank you for the article.

[Illbay]

There were never 70,000 African-Americans who served. They were never even able to get one battalion of negro soldiers together.

The bill was hotly debated in the rebel "congress" for a couple of months, with filibuster threats, etc., before it was finally passed. By the time it got through, and the decrepit rebel "military" bureaucrats got things in order the war was over.

[Illbay]

Not so much "evils of the Confederacy"--that much doesn't even need debate.

It's more about revisionist history. This whole article is a lie.

[Illbay]

I'd forgotten about the Louisiana soldiers.

There was such a hue and cry when the bill that would allow blacks to be stolen from their masters and drafted into the army, that one NC newspaper said "why did we even bother seceding, if not to protect the very property that the government now proposes to confiscate?"

[putupon]

The first Memorial Day was for Confederates. It was shortly after the War of Nothern Aggression some yankee woman came by and noticed the people honoring the graves of those killed at Petersburg, VA during the seige. She thought it was a good idea and took it back up to the yankees.

[sheltonmac]

What?! Black Confederates?! That can't be! Everyone knows the war was fought over slavery! How dare you challenge everything I ever learned about American history in publik skool!

[Lysander]

Slavery is wrong, even when supported by the slaves themselves. Taxing labor is a form of slavery. Most modern American slaves support it. It is akin to saying," But if we don't be slaves no mo' who gwanna feed us?"

[kaboom]

They should really rename it to Sherman Day to honor someone victorious. Or else, just call it Dead Soldier of a Losing Army Day.

[archy]

Slavery is wrong, even when supported by the slaves themselves.

And I hope you have noted that under our constitution, it has not been abolished, only made into a governmental monopoly.

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[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"" But if we don't be slaves no mo' who gwanna feed us?"


That's the question they are still asking to this day.

They are not happy with the answer "Yourself."

[Pern]

This whole article is a lie.

Sorry, I disagree. This seems to be a well researched piece, but if you want to join the Politically Correct crowd and bash the evil, two-headed, baby-eating, everyone had 10 slaves soliders of the CSA, feel free.

But those of us that have relatives that fought and died for their property (by that I mean land, not slaves) won't join the PC crowd and attack the CSA because it's the PC 'flavor of the day'.

I believe that the CSA's soliders were just like those before and after them, they fought for Duty, Honor, and Country.

[putupon]

Sherman didn't participate in the Petersburg seige, he was busy inventing Total Warfare by murdering civilians in Georgia at the time.

[sheltonmac]

"BTW, under Confederate rule, for the 'crime' of possessing a U. S. flag, John Masters would have been hanged."

I must have missed that little tidbit of information in all the history books I've read. Did you read that in The Definitive History of the Civil War According to Yankee Revisionists?

[Grand Old Partisan]

They fought against "Country" -- the United States of America!!!

As for "well-researched" -- where is the research to support his assertion that 18,000 blacks fought in the rebel army? He himself admits that black rebel graves are "scarcer than hen's teeth." Why, because as with hen's teeth, there aren't any.