Yates Mill

Comment by SFMEDIC on Black Confederate in Gen. Forrest’s raid

History that is rewritten is not history, it is propaganda. All true Southerner's know the war was not about slavery or even racial matters. It was about an invasion by a foreign army bent on enforcing the economic dictates of a hostile government upon a people they had no regard for. It was the beginning of what we are dealing with today. The only difference between then and now is I doubt you can find enough liberty loving people to defy tyranny again.

When Sherman was pillaging the South his men set fire to a grist mill that my father was born in and my grandfather operated. Local slaves and black freemen came and put the fire out and circled the mill and defied Union troops by telling them "you will have to kill us too before we allow you to burn this mill."

This mystified the Union but that mill, Yates Mill in Raleigh NC, still stands and bears the scars of that fire today. All Southerner's, black and white, still bear the scars of the War Between the States and always will as long as the Federal government gets to rewrite history to their purposes.