Give Us A Flag

The person who wrote the song is unknown. He obviously had very strong feelings on the subject. An obviously non-PC word has been left in since it reflects the feelings of the times.

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters 'US,' let him get an eagle upon his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States."
—Frederick Douglass

Category:

Education

Tags:

• black
• troops
• union
• army
• civil
• war
• 54th
• massachusetts
• united
• states
• colored
• volunteers

[FroaggaLaMajaga]

@TThorne931 Excuse me, I've noticed you framing the confederate soldiers as terrorists on many videos on youtube, may I have your phone number so I can talk to you and clarify? I think you've got it wrong, thanks. You can send it to me in a message if you don't want other youtubers to have this information.

[TThorne931]

@VictorLepanto no he lengthened the war by not massacering the Evil terrorist if the CSA

[VictorLepanto]

@ARP7777777: I didn't say it was a reasonable or likely position, but that was his position. This is rather clearly demonstrated by the fact that he did eventually challenge Lincoln as a Democrat & on an accomodationist platform. The only chance to restore the Dem. Party @ that time was w/ the South. It is ironic, Lincoln actual helped to restore the fortunes of the Dem. Party, by bringing back their most stalwart supporters.

[ARP7777777]

@VictorLepanto Yes and no. He wanted to win a limited victory, and put everything back the way it was. But that is impossible, so why even Try? You can only create victory by wanting it more than life itself. Otherwise, why BOTHER . . .

[LivingCrusader]

Awesome. Reminds me of an article I read in America's Civil War Magazine (if I'm not mistaken the name) of the 1st Kansas United States Colored Troops who were the real first blacks to be trained to fight for the Union. Now I have a black Union song to go with the black Rebel song on my playlist.

[fullmetaljacketjoker]

If you are a reb it means rebel and union didn't want slavery so the south rebelled hence reb

[REfanboys1]

Im a reb but dont mean im a racist good song



[blogospherewhatever]

Thank you for posting this beautiful video, and fitting tribute. A great song, still filled with hope, faith and the fighting spirit of the 54th Mass, and other brave African American soldiers who died fighting for the Republic in this nations civil war.

[chapdog82]

@SouthernFriedHoney So not all black were murdered just because all the rebs were scum sucking pig racists. They felt they were avenging their comrades because their own leaders used the "black soldier taboo" as a tool to enrage them. That's the bigger picture. Once those black men were denied the ability to lead that charge there was no need for them to be thrown into that battle. They could have proved their grit elsewhere. But instead were nearly destroyed. Thanks Burnside.

[chapdog82]

@SouthernFriedHoney I will blame Burnside for it. Blacks were murdered by plenty of rebels on plenty of other battlefields but this was an instance where they were lead to their own deaths. You'll also find that many rebels killed blacks at the crater cause earlier in the battle 2 black regiments successfully charged a portion of works. They screamed "No Quarter" as they charged and killed a few rebs as they surreneded but only a few. Word spead among the rebs and the retaliated to the extreme.