Real0ne
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ORIGINAL: KenDckey Well with all of what I consider crap going on in the nation I am really just looking for thoughts. I have read and heard a lot lately about the subject and the differing opinions are quite intreging to me history is factually never what it appears to be. 1. Dr. Lewis Steiner, Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission, observed General Stonewall Jackson’s occupation of Frederick, Maryland, in 1862. He wrote: Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number [of Confederate troops]. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie knives, dirks, etc. … and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army (in Barrow, et al., 2001). This description of men wearing shell jackets or coats and carrying weapons suggests soldiers. It does not appear indicative of cooks or musicians or body servants. Of course, we cannot know by the description, but it suggests 3,000 armed black Confederate soldiers. 2. 2. Report of Frederick Douglass “There are at the present moment many Colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but real soldiers, having musket on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down any loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the rebels” (In Williams “On Black Confederates”). Douglass’s report is clear: Black Southerners were fighting “as real soldiers.” 3. Monuments to Black Confederates – The Moses Ezekiel sculpture in Arlington Cemetery to the Confederate dead – his circular frieze clearly shows one of the Confederate soldiers as a black man in uniform and under arms. 4. Individual witnesses to black Confederates. See the following link for much more information: http://www.rebelgray.com/blacksincombat.htm
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