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
Cool! I can trace my European ancestry as far back as 1100s. But that was without doing much work. I learned I have 5x great grandparents from Germany who came to Pennsylvania in 1790s. Their last name was Graber or Gruber.
Yea I remember finding info on black confederates was easier but lately anything I search I get articles “debunking” it but I remember learning there were some
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
Cool! I can trace my European ancestry as far back as 1100s. But that was without doing much work. I learned I have 5x great grandparents from Germany who came to Pennsylvania in 1790s. Their last name was Graber or Gruber.
Yea I remember finding info on black confederates was easier but lately anything I search I get articles “debunking” it but I remember learning there were some