Dixie and H.K. at the conclusion of the H.L. Hunley Funeral/Parade, April 17 2004.
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“I’m proud of my Confederate soldier ancestor, not to say bone-tired of the politically correct denial that there were black Confederates,” he chided. “My grandfather served as a surgeon’s aide with Dr. Thomas Edgerton Frady of the 34th North Carolina Confederate Regiment of the Confederate Army.
Why did he fight? For the same reason Southern whites fought for it: Because his homeland was being invaded. Whether slave or free, like the nine out of 10 whites who owned no slaves, the South was his country, too.”
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