"If Good Deeds Are Recorded in Heaven, This Slave's Name Appeared in the Record"
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Colonel Harrison C. Hobart of the 21st Wisconsin Infantry suffered a wound and fell into enemy hands at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga. Sent to Libby Prison in the Confederate capital, he escaped with 108 of his fellow prisoners on Feb. 9, 1864. He made it to Union lines. During his escape, he encountered an enslaved man to whom he was forever grateful. Here's the story.
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Great story. Thanks.
Stories of these unnamed heroes touch me deeply.
I read a book on the escape from Libby prison. Like all POW facilities it was deplorable. The escape was v dangerous as was the the days after. Half were recaptured It took incredible fortitude to make such a daring adventure.
Do you remember the book's title?
I had a copy of a book entitled “escape from Libby prison”
Ron thank you for this superior story! I have read so many Civil War books! These books mostly talk about battles, logistics, strategies, and the outcome of the battles! I had no idea that slaves were assumed to be ready to help escaped union soldiers! I never heard about these things! My question is that what about the slaves who were very loyal to the Confederacy? I read that Confederate General Forest's slaves fought with him and that many slaves gladly volunteered to help the Confederate Army because they felt that they were helping to defend their homeland? What about those slaves who were very loyal to the Confederacy?
I find these stories of real people amazing. These stories highlight the dangers and bravery of so many people during the war. Thank you for sharing!
Amazing. Thank you.
What a wonderful story. I wonder how many times such things happened.
Love your stories that are so well researched. Thank you.
Great story. Almost a 50% escape tally. I wonder how many went back into the army.
Thank you, Ron (from Arabia!). Great as usual! 🌺💐🌹
Lovely story of people of differing backgrounds risking life and limb for each other. would be great to have a book of similar stories to counter the message of hate groups seeking to divide us on racial lines.
I really enjoyed this episode.
Yet some will argue that the civil war wasn't primarily about slavery. Strange how almost all the protagonists at the time, including the enslaved folks themselves thought so.
That is Lost Cause propaganda
Isn't is ironic and simply amazing, with all the information now available through the magic of the Internet, how people can remain so self-deluded? For many, strongly held beliefs are proof even against the most clear evidence that people can access for themselves.
It is also ironic how people sympathetic to the Southern Cause will assume the Union's Cause and ignore the causes laid out in plane language in the various legislatures of the Southern States. In cause that the people in the non-slave-holding States, at least at first, was for national survival in a world of European Imperial Powers hungry to carve up the world. This is cause my ancestor (who's name I carry) immediately volunteered for in 1861.
Now, go across the Mason Dixon Line into the "Confederate States" and the cause, that is, the very NEED for a war, a NEED that was repeated over and over again in the most official State governmental bodies, it was slavery, slavery, SLAVERY and the protection of that wicked institution (America's Original Sin). Slavery NEEDED protection since human slavery was the very "mudsill foundation" upon which the South's 'Gentile Southern Culture' and the wealthy Plantation economy was built. Of course, as the war progressed, it became clear that, for moral and practical military reasons, the people sympathetic to and actually fighting for the Union cause underwent an attitude shift from a war being solely about preserving the Union to a war that included the elimination of slavery as a moral imperative AND a tool necessary for ending the rebellion.
It became primarily about slavery, when it was politically expedient, and necessary for it to be. Using this story to attempt to drive that "point" home, is exceptionally remedial. There were black confederate soldiers and bodyguards who chose to be so, on their own account. There were slave holding states in the union, before, and after the emancipation.
@@keithsilverang7906 viewing a complex issue, critically, is not any sort of propaganda, its just ... viewing a complex issue... critically. You are a remedial.
@@Mr4autiger If you read the articles of secession, each and every state seceding did so explicitly because of the slavery issue, so the rebellion was indisputably rooted in slavery, and everyone knew it.