tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post8604203582347683012..comments2024-03-27T09:44:59.329-04:00Comments on Free North Carolina: No Sacrifice Too Great for IndependenceBrock Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-91107898955315201472015-01-01T22:43:57.264-05:002015-01-01T22:43:57.264-05:00Absolutely.Absolutely.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-78524655629172824942015-01-01T22:37:31.866-05:002015-01-01T22:37:31.866-05:00This just all goes back to that inbred bastard, Li...This just all goes back to that inbred bastard, Lincoln.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-18612062758728774902015-01-01T11:53:36.733-05:002015-01-01T11:53:36.733-05:00That's great and this last year would have bee...That's great and this last year would have been Dixie's eighth in a row, a record, for the eastern camp, but she couldn't miss school as the course was only given in the summer, but we plan on going this summer. They can attend until they're 21 and of course can go forever as a counselor.<br /><br />My other site and there are 47 pages on Memories of Dixie. The lady who published the two volume book on NC civilians commented on this at the beginning of volume 1. Thanks.<br />www.namsouth.com/Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-33092264661357038762015-01-01T03:05:15.286-05:002015-01-01T03:05:15.286-05:00I had just finished preparing that particular topi...I had just finished preparing that particular topic for the Sam Davis Youth Camp - Texas, to be presented next summer. It was fresh on my mind.<br /><br />I am unfamiliar with NamSouth. What is that?Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-43855514915555977702015-01-01T01:00:41.840-05:002015-01-01T01:00:41.840-05:00Yes, Sir and all stated are on NamSouth in one for...Yes, Sir and all stated are on NamSouth in one form or another, but the search engine is wanting. :)Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-90292450309502475452014-12-31T23:46:13.435-05:002014-12-31T23:46:13.435-05:00The Confederate Army allowed black soldiers in the...The Confederate Army allowed black soldiers in the combat ranks long before Richmond permitted it.<br />Colored troops were employed in the Confederate Army from day one, more than two years before they were used in the Union Army.<br />- Maj. Theodore Winthrop, the first Union KIA in the war (Battle of Big Bethel, June 1861), was killed by a Confederate black sniper. [Richard Rollins, Black Southerners in Gray]<br />- Fredrick Douglass, September 1861: “There are at the present moment, many colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government.”<br />- Horace Greeley, 1863: For more than two years, Negroes have been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy.”<br />- The Union segregated all blacks into the same companies with inferior white officers yielding high black casualty rates. The Confederates integrated the blacks and whites with the same officers yielding similar casualty rates.<br />- In September 1862 General Robert E. Lee asked how many armed blacks served in the ANV. Ans. >3000 or 7%<br />- Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, rode with an escort company. 20% were colored troops.<br />- Best estimate, Confederate colored combat soldiers in the War of Northern Agression: 7% to 8% or 80k to 96k <br /><br /><br /><br />Billnoreply@blogger.com