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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Did you know?

April is Confederate History Month in some states. There is often a lot of misinformation about the Confederacy and the Civil War.

Did you know?

1. That the Civil War was not a "Civil" one, but a war between two independent nations?
2. That the American Indian nations of Oklahoma fought on the side of the Confederacy?
3. That there were free blacks in the South?
4. That there were free blacks in the South who owned slaves?
5. That many slave-holding planters --like Haller Nutt of Mississippi -- opposed secession from the United States and refused to support the Confederacy?
6. That the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one?
7. That slavery existed in the United States while they were at war with the Confederate States?
8. That slavery still existed in the North after it no longer existed in the South?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is much irony in the fact that a war which has been written about and glamorized like no other, is still very much misunderstood.

R. L. Vaughn said...

A lot of it probably goes back to the old bromide about the victors writing history.

Mark said...

The lack of knowledge about the war is reflected by how it is misunderstood.Having been a Confederate reenactor years ago, I was often reeling when I saw how little people knew about it. In the '80s I knew a man whose father had been a Confederate soldier. The past was that close and yet people don't know it.

Mark said...

Confederate Memorial Day was April 26 here in Georgia. The event we went to was sparsely attended.I wasn't too discouraged as it was a small town but there should have been more people.Do what you can where you are is the course of action to take.

I put a Confederate flag on my great-great grandfather's grave. Seargent John Ashley Handley, 49th Georgia Regiment, captured at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864, held at Elmira prison camp (nicknamed Hellmira by those held there). Family tradition says it was a long walk back to Georgia

R. L. Vaughn said...

Mark, an "O. H. Handley" of Georgia or Alabama composed a song As We Go On. Any relation to you?

Mark said...

I have not traced the Handley line of the family, just know the one Confederate. I guess I ought to do so.