Comments on: Another Example of Black Confederate Gullibility

By: Andy Hall

Andy Hall — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:51:52 +0000

Kevin, I’ve looked at this news item from 1900 a couple of times — I lived in Brazos County, a few miles from Millican, as a kid, so it’s of personal interest as well as historical — and have never found anything on Henson Williams, from either 1861-65 or later, in the census records or local news accounts of this incident. It’s been a dead end for me, so far, the NYT story can neither be refuted, nor corroborated. It just sort of hangs out there, all by itself.

For the record, there is at least one case of an African American, former slave/body servant in Texas who was a member of a UCV camp, but who was nonetheless very explicitly not described as a soldier by the white veterans.

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:58:32 +0000

95%? It's probably more like 99.5%

By: msimons

msimons — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:42:59 +0000

Where is the evidence at; like Pension records and service documents. The more I dig the more I agree with Kevin that 95% of the Black troops were either Body slaves or were doing other jobs with in the Army but were not considered as soldiers even if they took up arms and killed Yankees.

By: Dan Wright

Dan Wright — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:54:16 +0000

Here's another interesting quote from Confederate Digest: “…on April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General George T. Sherman at Appomattox Courthouse.”

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:58:32 +0000

95%? It's probably more like 99.5%

By: msimons

msimons — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:42:59 +0000

By: Dan Wright

Dan Wright — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:54:16 +0000

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:06:46 +0000

Thanks for uploading a new pic. I think you raise a relevant question in this post. Perhaps SCV members were too busy taking part in various forms of “Massive Resistance” during the 1950s and 60s.

By: Corey Meyer

Corey Meyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:00:03 +0000

Where were all those SCV members who admire “black confederates” during the 1960's…

http://kindredblood.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/wh…

Picture should be back up as well…thanks for the reminder.

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:40:38 +0000

I guess you could ask these people where all the black Confederates were when it came time to stand up against the evil Yankees during Reconstruction.

By: Corey Meyer

Corey Meyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:28:23 +0000

What I find interesting about all this black confederate hype is the difference of how black confederates are viewed then and now. It would appear that the modern neo-confederate views the actions of black confederates as a positive good…something to be elevated and honored. Back then, ie: after the war, the black confederate…if there really is such a creature…was seen as someone to be kept down…kept from the vote, from land, from basic civil rights. It is obvious that the modern day neo-confederate looks past the treatment of African-Americans during the period of Reconstruction. If they were to really study the actions of many southern whites towards African-Americans during Reconstruction they may be forced to rethink the their idea of the “black confederate”.