Because there were a lot of black Confederates. The Union Army treated freed slaves as captured war materiel and used them as combat engineers in the face of the enemy. A chunk of the "freed" slaves defected back to Confederate lines.
I’m actually going to visit some distant white relatives later this year that I met via ancestry.com. Our common ancestor was a confederate plantation owner in Alabama. I guess I could technically join the group
I'm actually the historian for a bunch of historical groups in my area, including a couple of SCV chapters. Helps that a couple of ancestors died in the Late War of Northern Aggression.
Where I grew up black families fly Confederate Flags just the same as white ones.
Explaining that to "anti-racist" people outside the South is like teaching a toddler calculus. Just blank stares.
Same thing when you tell them there are black members of the Sons of the Confederacy.
Because there were a lot of black Confederates. The Union Army treated freed slaves as captured war materiel and used them as combat engineers in the face of the enemy. A chunk of the "freed" slaves defected back to Confederate lines.
I’m actually going to visit some distant white relatives later this year that I met via ancestry.com. Our common ancestor was a confederate plantation owner in Alabama. I guess I could technically join the group
I'm actually the historian for a bunch of historical groups in my area, including a couple of SCV chapters. Helps that a couple of ancestors died in the Late War of Northern Aggression.