Civil War Redux

The war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery... - Frederick Douglass, 1861

Saturday, September 13, 2008

"Honoring" "Black Confederates"?

Robert Moore, on his blog Cenantua, has recently posted some of the most informative and perceptive comments on the "black Confederate" question that I have seen in a while:

More on headstones, pensions, and "Black Confederates."


No need for “interpretation” when the facts were made clear some 90 years ago

My point in posting the pension abstract... more on the way in which "Black Confederates" are "honored"


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