A Question Of Blue And Gray........And Black Lingers

H.K. Edgerton, right, is a black Confederate activist who works to bring the truth of black southern heritage to people of all races.
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"Despite evidence to the contrary, many historians say blacks did not w
willingly fight with the Confederate army during the Civil War.

When Confederate Civil War hero Amos Rucker died, the city of Atlanta shut down for his funeral.

Eulogized by the state’s poet laureate with the moving “When Rucker Called the Roll,” the fallen veteran’s pallbearers included then-Georgia Gov. Allen Chandler, Judge William Lowndes Calhoun, ex-Postmaster Amos Fox and former Confederate Army Camp Commander Frank Hilburn. Rucker was laid to rest in Atlanta’s Southview Cemetary, current burial site of members of Martin Luther King’s family.

While such ceremony was not uncommon among Southern survivors of America’s Civil War, what made Rucker’s funeral so memorable is that he was among the black soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the war."

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A Question Of Blue And Gray........And Black Lingers

Via Pawmetto, SWR