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.
Cool!! I have a gggg grandfather that was a colonel in the revolutionary war. I was told I could apply for that group as well. Do you have any recommendations for any docs about Indians or blacks who fought for the confederacy? I ask because a friend of mine flat out didn’t believe me when I told him there are black SCV members.
Indians fighting for the Confederacy is easier: Choctaw Confederates is a good book, and you have a couple of good papers out there like Native Americans: A Study of Their Civil War Experience. Amusingly enough, all of my Civil War ancestors were Creeks and Choctaws, either full-blooded or integrated into Native tribes.
For the blacks, it gets harder. There's been a full-court press the last decade to erase any mention of them, to turn it into a myth and a conspiracy theory. National Park Service was compiling a record of all the known mentions of black Confederates in their archives, but stopped suddenly years ago. But even Harvard admits they existed. Bare minimum, somewhere around 10,000 black Confederate combat troops, with about 2-5 times that many as freedmen serving as support troops.
Son, I can trace my dad's family back to when years had three digits, and we're German. Yes, I have ancestors in other wars. :P
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.
Cool!! I have a gggg grandfather that was a colonel in the revolutionary war. I was told I could apply for that group as well. Do you have any recommendations for any docs about Indians or blacks who fought for the confederacy? I ask because a friend of mine flat out didn’t believe me when I told him there are black SCV members.
You have ancestors in any other wars?
Indians fighting for the Confederacy is easier: Choctaw Confederates is a good book, and you have a couple of good papers out there like Native Americans: A Study of Their Civil War Experience. Amusingly enough, all of my Civil War ancestors were Creeks and Choctaws, either full-blooded or integrated into Native tribes.
For the blacks, it gets harder. There's been a full-court press the last decade to erase any mention of them, to turn it into a myth and a conspiracy theory. National Park Service was compiling a record of all the known mentions of black Confederates in their archives, but stopped suddenly years ago. But even Harvard admits they existed. Bare minimum, somewhere around 10,000 black Confederate combat troops, with about 2-5 times that many as freedmen serving as support troops.
Son, I can trace my dad's family back to when years had three digits, and we're German. Yes, I have ancestors in other wars. :P