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Yea sure, the north was prejudice as well, nobody ever denied that. Point is this, the North had THOUSANDS of black soldiers, not onlly make the claim, but NORTH can prove it. Unlike certain other groups the north doesn't have to falseify evidence and play games with numbers to make it seem plausible that that many served.
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"In mortal combat, a man may and will become so infuriated by the din and dangers of a bloody fight that his heart will turn to stone and his every de sire [be] for blood."
John Hadley, 7th Indiana after the battle at Port Republic
"We maintain that this photograph has been deliberately falsified in recent years by an unknown person/s sympathetic to the Confederacy. This falsified or fabricated photo, purporting to be of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards (Confederate), has been taken to promote Neo-Confederate views, to accuse Union propagandists of duplicity, and to show that black soldiers were involved in the armed defense of the Confederacy. As of the date of this website this photograph is being sold on the web by an on-line retailer, www.rebelstore.com, which promotes itself as 'The Internet’s Original Rebel Store,' and advertises this photograph as a legitimate photo of 'Members of the first all Black Confederate Unit organized in New Orleans in 1861.'"
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Cash
I did some investigating of this several months ago and if the information is accurate- the originator claiming it to represent black Confederates...was also black.
...So much for the 'neo-Confederate' conspiracy.
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"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
There were several versions since 1865. Which version did he originate? The one currently for sale? The previous one? The one before that?
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
I did some investigating of this several months ago and if the information is accurate- the originator claiming it to represent black Confederates...was also black.
Then you'll have no trouble at all sharing the details of what you found -- such as the man's name and when he did this.
Tim
__________________ "Let us, then, consider all attempts to weaken this Union, by maintaining that each state is separately and individually independent, as a species of political heresy, which can never benefit us, but may bring on us the most serious distresses."
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, 1740-1824, Revolutionary War soldier, one of the authors of the US Constitution in 1787, speaking at the South Carolina Ratifying Convention in 1788.
First time I saw that picture I thought, why would Lousiana Native Guards need greatcoats -- especially when few Confederates had them?
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Union greatcoats were sky blue. In B&W, they come out gray. If I'm recollecting, the white officer was not wearing one.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
"...if the information is acurate..." Ahh I see, that makes it all right doesn't it. I think the photo wishful thinking & outright deception; something proven beyond a shadow of doubt..
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