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God bless all proud black confederates....

How could a humanitarian have slaves?

Bless these souls

About time somebody started telling the whole story truthfully.

In 9000 written down accounts by Union Soldiers of Battles , Skirmishes etc only 7 feature a black man firing at Union Troops of those 7 all but 2 were misidentification due to black powder and distance only 2 could be verified and were thought to be camp followers.

Unfortunately, the average person is of low to average intelligence so I think most people of any color or race can't fully comprehend the complexities of history. Thank you for showing us a more objective lens and one with lots of truth many people shun.

It genuinely annoys me how historical context isn't taught in schools. You look back and see towards the end of the war the Confederate Congress authorized black troops. Some did sign up to fight in exchange for their own freedom. The war had some instances where a soldier went into battle with a slave he owned. Sometimes the slave fought with him. Other times he was pressed into fighting for the South under duress. No one tells you slavery is a universal human evil. Everyone had slavery at some point in time. No one tells you in the pre Civil War South they found instances of free black men who owned slaves. No one tells you even though they were barred as being soldiers, some black did fight in militias and in the Confederate Navy. No one tells you there's a massive disconnect between what a government goes to war for and what the average soldier signs up for. No one tells you the majority of Confederate soldiers didn't own slaves. To them it felt like their homes were being invaded. No one tells you it's a mistake to apply modern day morality to past societies. True history is a lot more complex than we are led to believe.

Nothing new here their have always been blacks who identify with and support their oppressor Malcolm X talked about this in his speech comparing the house negro and the field negro.

Fought for his enslavement?

According to "The Federal Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" (actual source material) the Acting Master of the U.S. Steamer Silver Cloud signed for and took custody of the most seriously wounded United States Colored Troops at Ft. Pillow from Gen. Forrest's command - hardly the sign of a "massacre." Further, in 1871 a Congressional investigation determined that there was no "massacre" at Ft. Pillow and that the barracks had been set fire by a Union Lieutenant under orders from the Union Acting Commander. The investigation also concluded that Forrest did not "start" the KKK nor did he serve as its leader. The "Ft. Pillow Massacre" was wartime propaganda intended to discredit Forrest because Union forces could not defeat him in the field. Incidentally, the only person charged with or tried for what were defined as "war crimes" was Union (then Colonel) Turchin at Athens, Alabama. He was tried by Union Court Martial and found guilty. The Court Martial recommended that he be stripped of rank, dismissed from the Union Army and serve at least two years in prison. In response, President Lincoln pardoned Turchin and promoted him to General.

Haven't we all had that self-proclaimed historian who scolded us saying that no blacks ever served in the Southern Army?

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Black Confederates? This is political schizophrenia.

According to William Douglas. Who was a skilled laborer. One of his masters was black. So a lot of the stereotypes were not true.

Hurrah for Dixie hurrah for the Bonnie blue flag

Being a black Confederate is the same thing as being a Jewish Nazi lmfaooo. Black people should realize the confederecy didn't even see them as human beings. You were seen as property like cattle and horses. Get real lost causers.

Man, am I glad this popped up on my screen! Thank you algorithm.

One of Jefferson Davis's generals did advise him to emancipate and arm slaves at the start of the war. But Davis vehemently rejected that advice. It "would revolt and disgust the whole South," he snapped. During the first few years of the war, some others repeated this suggestion. Each time, Richmond slapped it down. Not only would no slaves be enlisted; no one who was not certifiably white, whether slave or free, would be permitted to become a Confederate soldier.

John Beauchamp Jones, a high-level assistant to the secretary of war, scoffed at rumors that the Confederacy had units made up of slaves. "This is utterly untrue," he wrote in his diary. "We have no armed slaves to fight for us." Asked to double-check, Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon confirmed that "No slaves have been employed by the Government except as cooks or nurses in hospitals and for labor."

They were not proper confederate soldiers. Most were slave , camp followers. The idea of Black confederates willing to fight and die for the South was invented, at the same time as the lost cause. Right up until two weeks before the end of the war. It was illegal for a black to serve as armed soldier in the confederate army.

why do these lost causers always ignore the fact that these "black confederates" were camp slaves, and did not go willingly? In fact, it was illegal for black men to enlist in the army for nearly the entire war, and when it was made legal on March 13th, 1865, at that point the war was already lost for the confederacy, it was mere weeks before Robert, slaveholding, lee, surrendered. Sure, it was eventually made legal for black men to enlist, but it was a very unpopular decision, in fact, southern democrat, Howell Cobb said: "If slaves make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong." The fact that people today still think a group of rebels who fought to preserve the right to keep black men, women, and children in bondage were good people and were fighting for states' rights, disgusts me.

You can't tell the truth. It's illegal these days. At least it forbidden on college campuses, Hollywood movies, the News Media etc. etc. Good video. Thank You

This is ok but they spent way to much time talking about Forrest and not about the various black Confederates

How can anyone be good to their slaves?

God Bless them along with all the other Rebel lads. It was Yankee Reconstruction oppression that created the animosity that did not exist previously.

If we lose the war , you can trust me to set you free 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Only one poor soul was smart enough to see through the BS of the LATER founder of the KKK .

I believe there were es many black slave owners who knew their buttered bread was in serious danger of coming to its end & fought to preserve it . They didn't give damn about morality

Im Mexican from south East Texas .....many thousands of Mexican / Texans fought in the Confederate south ....also Mexicans from CA Nevada Arizona and Colorado

This looks like it was filmed in the 1930s with the black soldiers.Even when my dad grew up in the 1920s,30s there were still some Civil War veterans and civil war widows around

Comments are often racist and misinformed. You divulge your agenda.

Why in the world would Blacks fight for their slave masters to keep themselves enslaved??

You could never show this in a university or high school

You know More African American Folks should see this and Learn about this👍🏻

I wish I was taught about brave black soldiers in the civil war, I was only ever taught the union was nothing but racists during this time. It would be better for everybody if we just told to truth of the war and about the banks in the north, and who really owned all the slaves. The story about the 25 men who went back home with their General is one of the best classic American stories I've ever heard and I had to wait until I finished school to learn it.

I heard that Gen. Nathan Forrest founded the Ku Klux Klan shortly after the Civil War ended. But quit because the Klan became to violent even for him.

The North always looked down on and still does The South and her people of all races. History Books seem to overlook so much good the South contributed to America.

As a Combat Veteran (11B) I salute these men.

Slavery. Period. And the south won't let it go. Period. These black men were brainwashed by white supremacists. Period.

Black Confederates is a term often used to describe both enslaved and free African Americans who filled a number of different positions in support of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Most often this assistance was coerced rather than offered voluntarily. Enslaved men were either hired out by their enslavers or impressed to work in various departments of the Confederate army. Free Black men were also routinely impressed or otherwise forced to perform manual labor for the army. The government’s use of Black labor, whether free or enslaved, followed patterns established during the antebellum period, when county governments routinely engaged the service of Black men to help maintain local roads and other public property. While large numbers of Black men thus accompanied every Confederate army on the march or in camp, those men would not have been considered soldiers. Only a few Black men were ever accepted into Confederate service as soldiers and none did any significant fighting. Through most of the war, the Confederate government’s official policies toward Black men maintained that those men were laborers, not soldiers; changes to that policy in March 1865 came too late to make any difference to Confederate prospects for victory

I emjoyed hearing their stories....Thank You.

He made his slaves fight for their freedom in a war so he could keep other slaves oh wow such a humanitarian 🧐 a humanitarian owning other humans is an oxymoron

it's a tough issue, but there is one side that is not being told. We need to stand up and spend our money and our time to make sure it is told

Definitely one of America's Best Calvery/Military Officers!

Fact. Confederates paid white and black soldiers the same amount. The Union? Nope.

Based.

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR FORT PILLOW MASSACRE. RETURNED PRISONERS.

There were blacks who aided the Confederacy, though the vast majority were slaves. There were also mixed-race people, part of whose ancestry was African-American, who fought as soldiers or officers for the Confederacy (mostly in Louisiana, look up the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. Ironically the first unit of the entire war to have soldiers of color was fighting to defend chattel slavery). However, the 1st Louisiana was not popular, and the Louisiana Legislature passed a law barring all non-whites from serving in the state militia, of which the Native Guard was part. 10% of the Native Guard would later defect to the Union regiment of the same name that was raised primarily from veterans of the Confederate Native Guard after Louisiana fell into Union hands. But generally, the idea that blacks ever fought for the Confederacy on the same scale as for the Union is a myth. Far more blacks were officers or soldiers in the Union Army than in the Confederacy, which had no African-American soldiers or officers who did not also have recent white ancestry. It was pretty much a Louisiana quirk.

WE WUZ DRUMMAS AND SHIET!!!!

The reason they supported those Southern slaveholders in the war it's because there's a word for it today we call it Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome.😂😂 I'm being very cynical today intentionally.

They werent soldiers but slaves. Where are there confederate pension records? If what you say is true, southerners mistreated them by not giving them pensions. Of course, that's nothing compared to the evil of slavery.