dagblog - Comments for "The Search for Black Confederate Soldiers part II"

You are amusing. You have a

rmrd0000 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:16:12 +0000

You are amusing. You have a concrete thought process, but your humorous post made my day.

There are anecdotal reports of unicorns too, you can investigate them next.

You believe that blacks

rmrd0000 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:18:01 +0000

In reply to You argue fiction that you

You believe that blacks fought willingly for the South. One of the great things about the U.S. is that you are free to express your beliefs. You have provided no proof. Anecdotes are not proof.

You argue fiction that you

rmrd0000 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:34:03 +0000

In reply to The guys at Bull Run were

You argue fiction that you decided was true rather than fact. It is also possible that someone saw Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe eating dinner. I didn't say it happened, I just said it was possible. All I have is some anecdotal evidence from a guy who seems reliable. I also have some anecdotal evidence that the moon landing was faked. I didn't say it was faked, I just said it was possible.

The guys at Bull Run were

Aaron Carine — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:43:21 +0000

In reply to Rm, this guy Levin wasn't

The guys at Bull Run were slaves, and Coates' words here are wise

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/black-confederates-a...

But it isn't inconceivable that a small number of blacks may have been informally recruited(or conscripted) without any paperwork. I don't say it is so; I say it is possible.

Rm, this guy Levin wasn't

Aaron Carine — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:21:59 +0000

In reply to Aaron, I don't have time to

Rm, this guy Levin wasn't even talking about Jordan, so how does this refute him? Jordan cites the newspaper as naming two black veterans of the Richmond Howitzers. How do you know the newspaper was lying? Levin is attacking another guy who is a charlatan; that has nothing to do with Jordan. If Jordan did omit evidence that the guys at Bull Run were coerced, he should be criticized, but that isn't enough grounds to dismiss him as a fraud.

If all the blacks who bore arms were conscripted, and we don't know that for sure, it would be technically accurate to call them "Confederate soldiers". I think there MIGHT have been a few score to a few hundred; that wouldn't support any claim that the South's African-Americans liked the Confederacy; which I don't believe. I have some evidence apart from Jordan, but it is anecdotal, so I know you wouldn't accept it.

Like the black Confederate,

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:34:08 +0000

In reply to You don't have to keep your

Like the black Confederate, the myth of the loyal black slave who would die for 'Massa was created in the south by Lost Cause apologists. You have been bamboozled.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR200603...

You don't have to keep your

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:24:20 +0000

In reply to I'm keeping my resolve to

You don't have to keep your resolve on my account. I interpret it as inability to defend the charlatan you used as a source. For example, the Richmond Howitzers were not integrated they had a black slave. Slaves at Bull Run fought the Union at gunpoint. Yet you embarrass yourself by containing to claim nonsense like free black men fought willingly for the Confederacy. You come off as an apologist rather than a legitimate "reviewer".

I'm keeping my resolve to

Aaron Carine — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:50:33 +0000

In reply to The bottom line is there is

I'm keeping my resolve to give rm the last word, but I want to inform NCD that I haven't asserted that there were "armies" of black Confederates or a "Confederate graveyard full of blacks".

Thanks

rmrd0000 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:07:03 +0000

In reply to The bottom line is there is

Thanks

I can see why someone today would claim to be a black Confederate because there is money and notoriety to be gained. The idea of a slave using free will to decide to fight is an impossibility. A free black man who was given a gun and didn't head for Union lines would have only hesitated because his family was still under the master's control as slaves.

Hear, hear!

kyle flynn — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:58:38 +0000

In reply to The bottom line is there is

Hear, hear!