[Grand Old Partisan]

Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed. Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW.

[GOPcapitalist]

Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW

I don't know if he went into a yankee death camp...er...POW camp, but I do know off the top of my head that a black sailor was among the crew that surrendered into yankee custody from the CSS Shenandoah in late 1865.

[GOPcapitalist]

Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed.

Got any evidence of that? Didn't think so.

[nolu chan]

[GOP] Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed. Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW.

You are misinformed, not they. Some were taken at Gettysburg.

[thatdewd]

Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed. Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW.

"...among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in Confederate uniforms fully armed as soldiers..." - New York Herald, July 11, 1863

[wasp69]

Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed. Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW.

Wow, what a challenge! Can I play too?

Vernon R. Padgett, Ph.D.

Strong evidence against the thesis that blacks were “forced to fight” is found in the Tennessee Colored Man’s Pension Applications (TCMPA). Some 285 black Tennesseans filed for these pensions during the 1920s and 1930s. Applicants were not required to describe their combat experience, but many did so anyway. In these descriptions, 17 stated that Union forces captured them. Of those, 6 escaped back to the South (Rollins, 1994, page 81).

Easily found, documented, unhidden historical fact will be the bane of your existance until you are intelluctually honest enough to acknowledge it.