Black Confederate Soldiers
The Black soldiers who served in the
Confederate Army are the real forgotten men...
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Battle of Criswoldville
The article presented on this page is only one among many that could be posted! Southern Blacks fought for the Confederacy, just as did whites, and for many of the same reasons, it was their home, their families, and their sense of honor. The Yankee Barbarians invaded, butchered, burned, robbed and raped their way through our homeland. They did not discriminate; as to which race was their victim, regardless of their claims of fighting the war to free the slaves. Abraham Lincoln’s true purpose in fighting the war was his unyielding belief that ‘those people’ had the absolute right to rule, despite the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence.
As for slavery itself, it was an institution of its own time, and 21st century Confederates have nothing of which to apologize. The Yankees predominantly transported the slaves from Africa aboard U.S. Flag Ships, held them in bondage, and sold them to Southern Planters. In any case slavery would have ended, even had the Confederacy won their War for Independence. Abraham Lincoln could have bought the slaves, and freed them, at little or no cost in blood and devastation, and at a fraction the cost of the war.
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