To: Grand Old Partisan
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.
To: GOPcapitalist
"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."
Many of the CSA privateers' crews were foreigners, and that one black guy could have been a Jamaican or African. Again, show me, among the tens of thousands of rebel soldiers caputured, one black man.
349 posted on
07/26/2003 12:44:21 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: GOPcapitalist
...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 Had you known that off the top of your head then I'm surprised that you didn't also know that the Shenandoah didn't surrender to anyone. Captain Waddell took her to England, arriving in Liverpool on November 6, 1865 where he turned the ship over to British authorities. The crew was paroled by the British government and were never in U.S. custody at any time.
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