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Battalion, the guy may be black or not, but it's already been stipulated by just about everybody on the board that there were probably a few blacks who carried guns in one or more of the Confederate armies. If that's not your point then what is it you're trying to say? Geez louise man.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Battalion, the guy may be black or not, but it's already been stipulated by just about everybody on the board that there were probably a few blacks who carried guns in one or more of the Confederate armies. If that's not your point then what is it you're trying to say? Geez louise man.
Sam, we all look alike. I still think this group leans too heavily on the slavery issue as a factor in the participation of Southerners in the war. In another thread, there seems to be a concensus that between 4 and 12 per cent of Southerners (individuals or families) owned slaves. That leaves 96 to 88 per cent who had another problem. The US Army was shooting at Confederate soldiers, some of whom were our kin!
Sam, we all look alike. I still think this group leans too heavily on the slavery issue as a factor in the participation of Southerners in the war. In another thread, there seems to be a concensus that between 4 and 12 per cent of Southerners (individuals or families) owned slaves. That leaves 96 to 88 per cent who had another problem. The US Army was shooting at Confederate soldiers, some of whom were our kin!
No, the percentage of families was approximately 25% according to the director of the 1860 Census.
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Tim if you stretch the number of folks owning slaves up to 25 percent, which I doubt, that still leaves 75 per cent in the other category. That's a majority by most standards?
The significant slave holders were the planters, mostly rice planters and larger cotton planters in Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Those were the boys with the large numbers and also the dollars to lobby in the Congress, both the real one and the Confederate one.
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