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re: How long before the SEC forces people to take down their Confederate Flags
Posted on 9/16/14 at 10:19 am to Hater Bait
Posted on 9/16/14 at 10:19 am to Hater Bait
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So, you can just let that argument go. The black men that fought for the CSA fought for their family and homeland. And yes, they fought for their fellow POOR white brothers that worked in the fields with them. Read a book man
How you going to fight without weapons
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ow, before you get excited, keep in mind that Stauffer points out that many of these black soldiers were not accepted by the Confederate government and were not issued firearms: still more of these soldiers were coerced into joining the military, and others joined to escape miserable poverty. Professor Carol Sheriff of the College of William and Mary reinforces the notion that any blacks who fought did so somewhat involuntarily, by clarifying that some black body-servants may have taken up arms in the heat of battle to defend their masters and themselves, and even then they were sometimes forced to do so. (Article HERE.) She also makes the point that arming blacks or allowing them to fight in the military was illegal in the Confederacy. This makes it extremely difficult to claim that the Confederates used black troops, because refusing to allow them to fight and forcing them to join in the first place quashes the notion that they were soldiers. In any case, they were present in such minuscule numbers that it’s difficult to validate their presence – these “soldiers” only represented about one half of one percent of the Confederate military strength.
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 10:27 am to BIGDAB
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these “soldiers” only represented about one half of one percent of the Confederate military strength.
They don't count because this guy says so?
All right. Everything you've seen in Gone with the Wind was exactly how it was. Every white was an educated land owner and every slave was like
mammy.
You know the only thing that movie got right was southern women are hot and hardheaded as hell.
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