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.









