Just One Problem With GOP Plan To Honor Black Confederate Soldiers...
January 8, 2018
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"On Dec. 13, state Reps. Bill Chumley (R-Spartanburg) and Mike Burns (R-Greenville) filed a proposed piece of legislation to recognize African Americans who fought for the Confederate States of America in the bloodiest conflict in the nation’s history. The lawmakers are seeking to form a commission that would eventually build a monument dedicated to black Confederate soldiers, according to The State.
But experts say there is no evidence that black soldiers fought alongside Southern whites in the War Between the States. “In all my years of research, I can say I have seen no documentation of black South Carolina soldiers fighting for the Confederacy,” said historian Walter Edgar, author of South Carolina: A History. Edgar also served for 32 years as director of the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies. “In fact, when secession came, the state turned down free [blacks] who wanted to volunteer because they didn’t want armed persons of color,” Edgar added."*
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