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Title: Black Confederates by J. H. Segars, R. B. Rosenburg, Charles Kelly Barrow ISBN: 1565549376 Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Helps to tell the WHOLE story . . .
Comment: Probably, the discovery that more than a few African Americans served on the Confederate side in the Civil War -- and not just as servants, either -- will strike some readers as contradictory, or even unnatural. Certainly, most historians have ignored the subject. But history is history: One must deal with past reality, not subordinate the facts to modern political positions. In researching the subject, Barrow called on the readership of _Confederate Veteran,_ the official publication of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, to submit information on black Southern loyalists. The results were large and diverse, based on official reports, pension applications, family correspondence, newspaper articles, and published memoirs, and from that came this anthology of historical documents and accounts, originally published under the title _Forgotten Confederates._ In fact, the most conservative estimate is that some 50,000 African Americans served on the Confederate side, compared to 600,000 to 1,000,000 white Confederates (depending on who did the counting). Few of them were "properly enlisted," of course (the Confederate Congress did not authorize such enlistments until the War was in its last days), but those who worked as servants, bodyguards, nurses, cooks, scouts, barbers, teamsters, musicians, and construction workers frequently joined the fight, whether sanctioned or not. The irony, of course, is that black Confederates served within white units, while black Union troops were carefully segregated from white troops. At least twenty-five percent of the Confederate Ordnance Department was black, and several black militia units were raised in Louisiana and Alabama. There were black Confederate sharpshooters in the Seven Days campaign in 1862, and more than 1,000 black sailors served in the Confederate Navy. And a surprising number of black faces appear in photographs of post-War Confederate reunions, many of which are reproduced in this volume. This is an engrossing collection of material and the twenty-one-page bibliography of sources for further study will be most useful to local historians.
Rating: 5
Summary: A student of the great mind who wrote this great book.
Comment: This book is a wonderful claberation of doucments overlooked by history.The author is a great mind and I recomend this book highly for its agnolagement of our forgoten heroes.This book brings halt to all "myths".
Rating: 5
Summary: Challenges commonly held precepts
Comment: Collaboratively compiled and edited by Charles Kelly Barrow, J. H. Segars, and R. B. Rosenburg, Black Confederates is a scholarly analysis of historical evidence of those black Americans who served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Correspondence, military records, preserved narratives and newspaper accounts present as clear a picture as possible of some seemingly self-contradictory people. Why did they fight, and in some cases, lose their lives for the South in a conflict fought to perpetuate the institution of slavery? This question is carefully scrutinized in a historical work that challenges commonly held precepts and brings to light an oft-overlooked side of America's deadliest war. Black Confederates is a welcome and fascinating addition to Black Studies and Civil War Studies reading lists and reference collections.
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Title: Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies by Arthur W. Bergeron, Thomas Cartwright, Ervin L., Jr Jordan, Richard Rollins, Rudolph Young ISBN: 0963899392 Publisher: Rank & File Pub Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Black Southerners in Confederate Armies by J. H. Segars, Charles K. Barrow, Charles K.Barrow ISBN: 0966245415 Publisher: Southern Lion Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ISBN: 0761536418 Publisher: Prima Publishing Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History) by Ervin L., Jr. Jordan ISBN: 0813915457 Publisher: University Press of Virginia Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: The Jewish Confederates (NS) by Robert N. Rosen ISBN: 1570033633 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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