re: #207 Walter L. Newton

Thanks for that link. I had never heard of the idea until today (above) and it never even crossed my mind that there were any active black confederate soldiers. That’s why I looked, and was surprised how many papers, books and website claim that to be truthful.

It’s a prime example how something can go viral on the internet and edge out the truth. There certainly seemed to be many more pages touting this concept then material like what you linked to.

I even found pages with full recreations of black confederate soldiers, full gear, acting out battles in which they claimed blacks fought in.

The LGM link I gave links to a Civil War blog by an academic that debunks much of that material. There’s other stuff over at LGM about it as well.

Apparently it’s been a mini-industry amongst RSM neo-confederate types since at least the mid-90’s— churning out revisionist crap about black ‘confederate soldiers’.
As pernicious and evil as other forms of revisionism.