Black Confederates…Really?

Dedication ceremony for black Confederate soldiers

 Here is a story about more black confederates found and honored by the SCV.  Some serious problems abound.  All the article states is the names of these men.  For all we know is that the SCV went to the cemetery, found some old stones and decided they were black confederates.  Hell, these black confederate are popping up faster than the south can dig up a new oldest living confederate widow.

The Giles County Chapter No. 257 United Daughters of the Confederacy and the General John C. Brown SCV Camp 112 were responsible for organizing the dedication ceremony for the Black Confederate Soldiers in Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski.

Summertown Camp 2113 also assisted with the ceremony. The names on those markers are Ruffin Abernathy, Maruice Adams Cleveland, Tom Brown, Fed Clack, Daniel B. Coleman, Jacob Coleman, Mack Dabney, Whitlock Fields, Nathan Gordon, Wash Harris, Steve Jones, Richard Lester, Robert Lester, Sam Maxwell, Neal Mitchell, Giles Moore, Joseph Reynolds and Matt Rivers. The 21-gun salute for the ceremony was provided by re-enactors.

This brings to mind another three posts over at Confederate Digest…Here….Here…and Here.  In all three cases I have made comments to Mr. Conn and have either not had those comments posted or he has not answered my questions.  I asked him to read a post over at Civil War Memory about Wary Clyburn and the fact that NC refused to assign him the status of “Soldier”.  (See picture at top of post)  Mr. Conn has yet to answer and explain.  My guess is that he cannot answer because he cannot explain.

This, then leads me to some very good and thought provoking posts over at Civil War Memory on Black Confederates…Here

Also, over at Kevin’s site there is a clip from the new History Channel release called Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War, which discusses the turbulent time of Reconstruction.  I have asked this question on this blog before, but I always seem to have a hard time putting it down into words.  If the south really had as many black confederates serving in its ranks as the “lost causers” say, then would someone please explain the need for the horrible violence brought down on the heads of blacks by the former confederates following the war?  If BC (Black Confederates) were such loyal fighters for the south, why not bestow upon them the vote instead of denying it them for nearly 100 years?  Why embrace segregation to keep the races apart if they fought side-by-side with white confederates and bled and died for the cause?

The reason seems clear to me, but I welcome comments from my readers.

The History of Slavery Glenn Beck Style…or…The Dumbest Man on the Face of the Planet

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American Exceptionalism in Nimes, France

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Santa Appears as Gen. Lee?

Here is an article on Fort Monroe’s most famous prisoner…Jefferson Davis.  But I thought the most interesting thing in the article was the picture of Gen. Lee, who was portrayed by none other than…Santa.  Also, in the article is the comment about Davis receiving a crown of thorns by the Pope, which has been discussed here.

FORT MONROE

This Army post was a Union stronghold during the Civil War, but one day a year, the halls of its museum are filled with more gray than blue.

As they’ve done for years, a few dozen members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered Saturday to memorialize the most famous prisoner ever held within the fort’s thick stone walls: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.

Davis died 120 years ago today, on Dec. 6, 1889. He had spent almost two years at the fort after his capture in May 1865 – a month after the Civil War ended. For 4-1/2 months, Davis was locked in Casemate No. 2, a room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and a large American flag on one wall, a reminder of his foe’s victory.

Now part of the Casemate Museum, the room contains a reproduction of the cot Davis slept on, the shelf where he kept his pipe, a Bible, table and chair. The 35-star flag, now under glass, is the same one Davis looked at.

“Standing in this room, you really get a feel for the tyranny and oppression,” said Mark Johnson, commander of the Norfolk County Grays, Camp 1549. Johnson wore modern clothing Saturday. But many in attendance, including an eight-man color guard and a Robert E. Lee look-alike, dressed in Confederate garb.

The invocation was given by a drawn, haunted-looking man in gray with a beard halfway down his chest who seemed as if he stepped from the pages of a history book.

The tone was somber – mournful, almost. Multiple speakers referred to Davis being tortured at Fort Monroe. But how the man referred to as “our one and only president” was treated while in custody depends upon whom you ask.

Participants talked of Davis in iron shackles, lights burning round the clock, kept awake by the treads of guards whose every step in steel-toed boots echoed across the wood floor.

Casemate Museum curator Paul Morando and historian David Johnson contend Davis was not mistreated.

A comprehensive new interpretation of Davis’ time at Fort Monroe, the first update in almost 40 years, provides a more nuanced picture. The displays, which went up last week, debunk various myths about Davis’ captivity and treatment and might not sit well with Southern sympathizers.

Davis was shackled for five days soon after arriving at Fort Monroe, the exhibit notes. The shackles were taken off after a Union doctor recommended removing them and they were never again used.

Davis’ initial quarters in the Casemate were “unbearably humid,” the exhibit notes, and for two months that summer, he could not leave the cell, which had a window overlooking the moat. But he soon was allowed to walk around the grounds with a guard.

By October 1865, Davis had been moved out of the fort to a four-room apartment in a building that no longer exists. His wife was allowed to join him, and for the rest of his captivity he was permitted to walk the grounds – unguarded – during daylight.

To his proud and loyal supporters, though, Davis’ captivity still rankles. With Fort Monroe passing from federal to state hands in two years, they want to make sure his story is not forgotten.

“The war goes on,” said Frank Earnest Sr. of Virginia Beach. “The war against us.”

Earnest, chief of heritage defense for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told about 40 people at the ceremony that Pope Pius IX sent Davis a crown of thorns to symbolize his suffering.

Phil Carpenter of the Eastern Shore was the keynote speaker. He talked as if he really were the man he portrayed – Lee, commanding general of the Confederate Army.

Mentioning Lee’s shared experience with Davis at West Point – both graduated in 1829 – he described his friend as “rambunctious, energetic, a hellion. He enjoyed a good time. He enjoyed a good drink.”

Carpenter stepped out of character toward the end of his talk.

“I feel almost as if the walls are closing in with emotion,” he said, his voice catching. “To look out that window and see the water go by, knowing he saw the same thing – it’s tough.”

Kate Wiltrout, (757) 446-2629, kate.wiltrout@pilotonline.com

A Tale of the South: Food Stamps, Etc!

The above image comes from an article found on Facing South via The New York Times and it shows a county-by-county breakdown of the use of food stamps in America.  You can see an interactive map here.  It is very interesting to note the high number of recipients of food stamps in the south.  I think there are a number of reasons why this map shows so much use of food stamps in the south, but I think I will let a few other maps do the talking!

Please feel free to comment on what you think all of these maps and the data they contain may say about the south and America.

Missouri Bushwhacker Whacks Last Bush!

 UPDATE: Last night, er early this morning (2:30 am CST) the Bushwhacker called my cell phone and has been calling ever since.  It appears that I have insulted his wife by placing a picture of the two of them sitting on a bus…smiling.  Well, out of respect for Mrs. Bushwhacker, I have removed the picture.  But this only goes to show how some people believe it is ok to drag family members into an online discussion and disagreement, but when the shoe is on the other foot they will go to great lengths to complain about it.

On the Missouri Bushwhacker site, my buddy has declared an end to the site, a similar fate shared by his brother’s blog, (see here) in order to devote more time to the Col. Coffee SCV camp site- Across Our Confederation.  And, in true Neo-Confederate style he invokes old Bobby Lee…

After nearly four years of covering Missouri politics and National politics from a Southerner’s point of view. The Missouri Bushwhacker Blog, will soon be closing its doors so to speak.

Due to increased responsibility since becoming both the Press Officer and the Webmaster for the Colonel John T. Coffee Camp #1934 it has become increasingly difficult to maintain this blog as it should be.

Therefore, having to make a choice between giving my opinion and helping defend OUR Southern heritage, I have no choice, but to put my efforts into defending my heritage and my duty that I owe to my fellow camp members, as well as my fellow SCV members.

General Robert E. Lee once said, “Do your duty in all things”, which is why critics of this blog should not be elated. It means I will be doubling my efforts in improving , maintaining and expanding both the Colonel Coffee Camp #1934 blog and website.

Know that I have every intention of expanding the blog , not only to help keep my camp better informed, but to also make it a Free Press outlet so that ALL members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, can share their views and opinions, no matter what they are, without being censored.

For Freedom and Missouri,

[The Bushwhacker]

COFFEE CAMP WEBSITE:

HTTP://WWW.COFFEECAMP.NET

COFFEE CAMP BLOG:

HTTP://MYSCV.WORDPRESS.COM

 

No Mo Reparations…No Mo?

Rich Lacy, you know Clint’s brother…, recently wrote this post over at No Mo Reparations.  Since then, No Mo Reparations has disappeared.  I cannot imagine why!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Oh No, I’ve Been Accused Of Being Racist!

An Illinois school teacher has accused me of being racist……go figure. I used to go into detail on why I’m not racist; I’m not going to do that anymore. Why? Because it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter how much I explain my stance, there are always going to be those who say that I’m racist……so be it.

The fact of the matter is……..if you don’t like this website…….don’t visit it; you obviously don’t get what I’m doing here! Like I’ve said before, my definition of nigger is a black that is a Black Supremacist. Right now that’s a big segment of the black race, since the election of Obama.

The black race was hell bent on electing a black man. The fact that he’s a marxist muslim did not matter to them. They sold their souls to get Obama into office; they got the nerve to accuse us of being racists? If white stands up for white, it’s racist.

If black stands up for black, it’s enlightenment. It is a thing to be celebrated……they’re free from the white devil…..blah, blah, blah; I’m sick of it!

Maybe Blogger.com has become sick of Mr. Lacy and has removed his hate speech.

I really like how these ultra conservative, neo-confederates love to contradict themselves.  For the last year or so you could not read anything but Obama’s connections to the “radical” Rev. Wright, but now that has tossed aside for the more ridiculous claim of Marxism and Muslim.  I want to know how they rectify the 20 years in Rev. Wright’s Christian church and how he is now a muslim?  Funny how they discredit thier own arguments.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Defenders of the Confederate Flag…

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Confederate Flag at Tea Party

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I love the kid who comes to guys defense and tell the educated young black guy that the south freed the slaves first…before the North.

This guy is what happens when you fall asleep in history class!