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Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies Paperback – May 1, 1997

by Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. (Author), Thomas Y. Cartwright (Author), Ervin L. Jordan (Author),

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ESSAYS ON AFRO-AMERICANS IN CONFEDERATE ARMIES

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172 pages
Language

English
Publisher

UNKNO
Publication date

May 1, 1997
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6 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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0963899392
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978-0963899392
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ UNKNO (May 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0963899392
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0963899392
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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V. R. Padgett

Did they fight for their American Country because it was perfect? No

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History is what it is, even if all the statues are taken down.

Black Americans fought for the South in the War Against Southern Independence, in 1861.

Black Americans fought in every American war.

Did they fight for their American Country because it was perfect?

No, they fought for it because it was their Country. Including The Confederate States of America.

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Vicki L. Witherspoon

Great product!

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This product was excellent for the price!

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Willie

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everyone who is interested in the Civil War should read this book

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Wayne Roberts

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EmilyDickinson

TRUE HISTORY

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If you are interested in true American history then read books such as this NOT WRITTEN by the Establishment or some Liberal professor who makes a fortune demanding that students buy his book

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J. Springer

Outstanding!

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Book Review: “Black Southerners in Gray, Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies” by Richard Rollins, et. al. This book was truly enlightening and educational. I did not know the depths of the contributions made by African Americans to the Confederacy until now. I am amazed, impressed, and humbled by their sacrifices. I have a new found respect and admiration for Black Confederates and pray their stories can one day be accepted. I always make marks in the book margins to highlight very cool facts and share them in my book reviews. I have practically destroyed this book with check marks because there were SO many interesting facts! I respectfully submit some fascinating insight from the book below but these few facts don’t even scratch the surface of the whole story!
“The primary fact was that the South was their home and they wanted to protect it. Some of the 4,000,000 blacks who lived there had roots going back over 200 years. Like whites, they thought of themselves as Virginians, Carolinians, Texans and so on…not Americans.” As someone who says I’m a Marylander before anything else, I can wholeheartedly relate to this sentiment!
“Jean Baptiste, a free black at the time of the War, applied for a Confederate Pension in 1912. The State Board of Pension Commissioners originally rejected his application because he had no official parole documentation. Several of his former comrades sent in affidavits attesting to his service until the end of the war and he received his pension in 1915.” The book states that 270 black Virginians met the requirements of the Confederate Pension application process. A total of 424 actually applied. Mississippi had 1,739 black pensioners, NC had 121, SC had 328, and TN had 285. This is amazing to me because the only MS offered early pensions (1888) and all other states waited till the 1920s. By the 1920s there weren’t a ton of Veterans left!
“The number of affluent free blacks in the South grew dramatically in the 1850s, a decade of unprecedented prosperity and continuous economic expansion. Numerous free blacks had family finances and property that could be lost in a lost war.” That group truly had a ‘vested interest’ in seeing the South win the War.
“There were so many black musicians in Southern armies that in April of 1862, the Confederate Congress passed a law authorizing their use and setting their paid wages as the same as white musicians.”
“On May 12th of 1861, Governor Thomas O. Moore issued a proclamation providing for the enrollment of free blacks in an all-black regiment with some black officers. The Louisiana Native Guards had a mission to defend New Orleans and by early 1862 approximately 3,000 men had joined this regiment.”
“Black Confederates served in the Navy as well as the Army. When the CSS Shenandoah arrived in Liverpool in November of 1865, one black Sailor, Edward Weeks, was on board, and thus became one of the last Confederates of any color to cease fighting.”
In late August 1868, General Nathan Bedford Forrest gave an interview to a reporter. Forrest said of the black men who served with him: “These boys stayed with me…and better Confederates die not live..” These words of Forrest sound sweet as sugar to my ears. Most people don’t know that Forrest told 45 slaves that he would set them free at the end of the War if they would go fight with him. ALL 45 went and fought like demons! A full 18 months BEFORE the War ended, Forrest gave them their manumission papers (i.e. freedom) and THEY ALL STILL FOUGHT TO THE END OF THE WAR. These same men and their families also attended his funeral in 1871.

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