Clip 1 from 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray'

Clips from the documentary 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray' directed by Stan Armstrong.

Available at www.desertrosefilms.7p.com

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Education

Tags:

• black confederates
• african americans
• confederacy
• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• slaves
• southern states
• servants
• Robert E Lee
• CSA
• American Civil War
• Rebels
• gray
• Cleburne
• master
• South
• confederate flag

[blfine1]

There is movie called "Glory" a true story, but hollywood done, but if you read the historical facts....the union separated white and black soldiers and at the end of the War Union Army would march the Black soldier into certain dealth to use up confederate ammunition and yet in the south they served as soldier, cooks, and labors along side they white counter-parts.....this is often not mention in history

[CNS2]

Great video, although the not seeing battle part is not exactly accurate it is still a wonderful little known piece of history not withstanding. God Bless partiotic Black Southerners! †

[bboy1ization]

another tid bit. Lincoln was a white surpremisist yet who was to be the confederate pesident and his wife had an adopted black son who was a citizen and free and was getting an education.robert e lee freed his slaves long before the war but grant (leading gen of north) kept his until it was over..black union soldiers got paid half what the whites did but confederate black soldiers were not forced and were paid equal 2 whites.complicated times.and slavery was only a very small reason for the war.

[Reneelwaring]

The American Constition was written so that the States would be able to govern themselves with little intervention from the Federal Government. When the Feds under the pressure of the abolutionists ratified the Constition to abolish slavery they were interfering with State rights. I'm sure that blacks DID fight with the Confederates, after all, they were born in the South but this war for Southerners wasn't about slavery but ironically it was about freedom.

[SOUTHERNANDPROUD1861]

@37stepp I had 3 black kin folk fight along side by side with the whites and by there own choice.Ole abe orderd all blacks found fighting with the south to be shot on site hows that from abe

[37stepp]

@TexasReb93 Who would fight for an institution that wanted to keep them in bondage, litterally bought and sold on auction blocks like animals, families seperated never to be seen again? Working from Sun UP to sun Down never recieving a dime for hard back breaking labor... The slave was kept systematically ignorant and if a blackman fought for the CSA he was IGNORANT and had little choice.

[TexasReb93]

@CherokeeCharli its such a shame these Southern heros were forgotton the NAACP wants us to forget them because it hurts there attempts to make everyone believe blacks only fought for the union and fought for there freedom against evil southern slavers

We few patriotic southerners will not let the NAACP erase there memory

these men were as brave as any white soldier

God Bless these fine men and God Bless the southland

[TexasReb93]

@37stepp easy to say it but history proves otherwise

its very common for simple minded yankees to dismiss blacks as ingorant if they didnt follow the union

just accept many slaves were born in the south and felt it was there homeland

[HardyRoundtree]

"No finer Confederates ever fought." - American General Nathan Bedford Forrest ( May 1865 in speaking about his black soldiers) 

[37stepp]

No such thing as a "Black Confederate soldier". They were slaves and had no choice in serving. If the "master" sent or took them, thats all that is was to it. They were property, without rights. They may have thought that they were fighting for southern way of life, but in essence they were fighting to keep themselve enslaved. Any "black confederate soldier" defending Confederancy is simply ignorant, period.

[darthroden]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

Maybe not accepted as soldiers in the South as a whole, but to their individual units the black servants, teamsters and foragers who picked up guns in battle and joined in were accepted for the most part among their comrades. If there were say ten or twenty such men in each regiment then that still equals a good number of men no matter how you slice it.