re: #194 iceweasel

There is a lot of good stuff over at Lawyers Guns and Money about black confederate ‘soldiers’ over the last couple of years. I’m digging for the links— one of the posters was teaching a class on the civil war at the time (the bloggers there are all academics).

Here’s one, anyway:

Anyway, the basic points are all made in the post Charles excerpted from another academic upthread: the myth of the black confederate ‘soldier’ is most definitely historical revisionism. Still, I’d recommend checking out old LGM posts for those interested in more.

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.