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Minorities During the War Between the States: Collected Resources
05-September-2006
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Posted on 09/05/2006 9:19:14 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: zgirl; dixie1202; righthand man; TexConfederate1861; chesley; rustbucket; JamesP81; LeoWindhorse; ..
To: stainlessbanner
Looks like you've been workin'
J Bump
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:25:25 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:25:42 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Tom Gallagher - the anti-Crist [FL Governor, 2006 primary])
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:26:29 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(1 year guarantee against congenital defects.)
To: stainlessbanner
At first glance, those links give the impression that no black men fought for the Union. Then I guess it is no news that many tens of thousands of freed slaves fought for their freedom in the Union army.
I do have a problem with the concept "fighting for the South". As a southerner, I say that the people who were really fighting for the South in the Civil War was the Union army as they were fighting to free ALL southerners from the tyranny of the Confederate slaveowners.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Post some links then, sport.
To: stainlessbanner
It's all over the Internet. Being pressed for time, here's one that says 180,000 in the army and 10,000 in the navy. I know that just because there's a link for it doesn't make it gospel truth, but those are generally accepted magnitudes of blacks in the Union cause.
http://www.answers.com/topic/emancipation-proclamation-and-thirteenth-amendment
And like southern whites, you often had to be truly dedicated to the cause to overcome all the barriers to even reach Union forces, whereas many southern conscripts and slaves served the Confederate needs only reluctantly.
The slaveowners were adept in getting others to do their dirty work no matter whether the exploited help was southern blacks or southern whites.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
they were fighting to free ALL southerners from the tyranny of the Confederate slaveowners. Sorry, they were fighting to preserve the union. Not to abolish slavery.
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:03:34 AM PDT
by
groanup
(fairtax.org)
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:03:55 AM PDT
by
groanup
(fairtax.org)
To: Colonel Kangaroo; stainlessbanner; rustbucket
How about the Southern blacks and Northern whites being exploited by the factorycrats in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and specifically in the first community planned around textile manufacturing, Lowell, Mass.?
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:14:16 AM PDT
by
PeaRidge
To: stainlessbanner
Bookmarked. Thanks for all the links...
To: stainlessbanner
At the court house in Wilkes County, GA are some photograpths of meetings of Confederate Veterans about 1890 or so. Of the 100 or so gentlemen in the photograth are about 6 to 8 black men. They are in no special place and seemed to be just part of the group. All 100 men are dressed about the same.
To: U S Army EOD
Thank you for that interesting fact, U S Army EOD.
There was a similar story at one of the G'burg reunions. Black Confederates showed up and surprised a number of folks; apparently they took their rightful seat among their brothers Union and Confederate for the event.
To: stainlessbanner
To: stainlessbanner
It's interestin that the Yankee supporters that always trumpet the numbers of Negros in the Union Forces fail to acknowledge that great numbers of those were conscripted. And many of those very unwillingly conscripted , torn from families and home and thrust into the Union service at bayonet point.
How is this different than slavery itself? Even the Rebs did not force the Negros to appear in the heat of battle unwillingly. Yet the Union did this . As they were the victors
at that time , it was easy for them to sweep this little fact under the proverbial rug for quite awhile.
Neither to they mention how vast numbers of 'Contraband' were 'freed' , only to be pushed off their plantations , having their housing burned and food stolen , turned into refugees and not offered much (if any) help and assistance whatsoever. It was one of the greatest human rights disasters in American history . And yet ,still today, people celebrate this and consider it some 'great victory!'
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:55:19 PM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: LeoWindhorse
I further contend that the Union's invasion of the South
was the equivalent of the 'first Katrina' .
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for the Ping
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:39:20 PM PDT
by
righthand man
(WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
To: stainlessbanner
Thank you sir! I really appreciate the references for future use. How long until we hear the patter of the rat squad's feet coming to try and tell us all these articles are "neo-confederate propaganda"?
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posted on
09/05/2006 6:35:34 PM PDT
by
Colt .45
(Navy Veteran - Thermo-Nuclear Landscapers Inc. "Need a change of scenery? We deliver!")
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