Posted on 08/31/2006 9:07:31 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
UDC member Martha Willis unveils the official marker at black Confederate Pvt. Henry Henderson's grave.
UDC Chapter Registrar Pamela Wood presented Ella Price, one of Henry's granddaughters from Sparta, and Oscar Fingers, a great-grandson and family genealogist from Evansville, IN, special framed plaques of the Confederate battle flag, the St. Andrew's Cross.
After a volley of gunfire, the Highland Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans continued the ceremony by firing cannons to commemorate the service of Pvt. Henderson.
Good pics from the event
thanks for the ping. Honors up.
Slaves slaving for their masters in the Confederate Army were not soldiers. Until March 1865, it was against Confderate law for black people -- slave or "free" -- to bear arms. While a handful may have picked up a gun here or there, the whole notion of black Confederate soldiers is a hoax -- and an insult to the memory of the 210,000 black patriots who serned in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
Slaves slaving for their masters in the Confederate Army were not soldiers. Until March 1865, it was against Confderate law for black people -- slave or "free" -- to bear arms. While a handful may have picked up a gun here or there, the whole notion of black Confederate soldiers is a hoax -- and an insult to the memory of the 210,000 black patriots who served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
I prefer to honor Pvt. Henry Henderson. Do you have a problem with that?
For fighting against the United States Government? Yes, I do.
What's your point, exactly? You might as well have said that unless a soldier serves in the infantry he's not "really" a soldier. There are plenty who serve without weapons.
Slaves digging ditches or whatever for their rebel masters had no choice but to do what their owners forced them to do. We might as well "honor" slaves for picking cotton.
What's your other FR handle?
"Free Republic does not advocate violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government."
Grand Old Paritisan hawking more books on FR.
Were you banned before?
Or just try to come back with another handle to fool everyone
Any way you slice it, they were nevertheless in harm's way. You make whatever they did sound ignoble because they were following orders. Isn't that exactly what soldiers do?
Besides grand old partisian came out to play over here.
"Grand Old Paritisan hawking more books on FR.
Were you banned before? "
Just knowing the nature of men, it would be hard to convince me that many black southerners (slave, free, and slave owners) weren't itching to fight against an invading army, of outsiders.
As the South honors the service of the black soldier, the North dissavows its' existance.
..Sounds like the Nukeman of Iran and his denial of the holocaust...
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