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"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.'"
That photograph was offered to this board several months ago as proof that there were colored confederate soldiers. Never could figure out why Louisiana soldiers had greatcoats.
Good catch. Thanks.
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
...but to claim it a "neo-Confederate conspiracy" is silly.
Actually IIRC you posted the pic as evidence... Amazing what someone w/ an agenda can do w/ photo shop... just a touch of cropping and viola. And of coarse when they sell copies at $5 or so a piece it's also fraud.
It speaks to the lack of honesty & integrity w/in the Lost Cause movement.
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Shane Christen
American Legion Post 352
SUVCW Camp Abernethy# 48
Lifetime NRA member
3rd MN VI
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl 1:18
The picture that Battalion showed is authentic, but the idea that this man's slave/bodyservant was a black confederate soldier is wide open to question.
I await documentation to see if that particular black man served in the Confederate army as a soldier, fighting in the ranks with other Southern whites. Not impossible, but exceedingly rare.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
The picture that Battalion showed is authentic, but the idea that this man's slave/bodyservant was a black confederate soldier is wide open to question.
I await documentation to see if that particular black man served in the Confederate army as a soldier, fighting in the ranks with other Southern whites. Not impossible, but exceedingly rare.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
Neil, I don't know anything about the 37th TX pic; my post was referencing his take on the faked pic of 1st LA NAtive Guards. Sorry for the confusion.
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Shane Christen
American Legion Post 352
SUVCW Camp Abernethy# 48
Lifetime NRA member
3rd MN VI
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl 1:18
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