The Native Guard was disbanded by the La. State Senate within the first year of the war. The Native Guard was never used in combat and was not reconized by the Confederate Army and was used only for parades and guard duty.
here in Missouri there was six black confederate regiments and four native American confederate regiments in 1861 and threw war mix races here faught for the south
Mark Shaw There are no pictures, no write ups in the war time papers, there is no evidence of the existence of such black Confederate units at all. If there is, please show it, and convince us.
And not even Parker was a soldier, he was a slave made to place guns and maybe carry shot for loading. And that was all, the white gun crews did the firing. His story was then ghost written and embellished for propaganda purposes by an abolitionist who in general at the time were trying to shame the North into accepting black recruits. None of this is new, it's all been looked at in detail by actual historians and discounted and discredited by peer review. _His representative example of a black Confederate turned out to be none other than John Parker, who briefly manned a Confederate battery at First Manassas. Parker was the subject of a recent Disunion post by Kate Masur. Even a cursory glance at the historical record indicates that Parker was a slave. Stauffer admits this, but goes on to contend that his presence with the artillery battery rendered him a soldier. During the Q&A I pointed out that at no point in Parker’s account does he suggest to being a soldier. In fact, he admits that his freedom lay just across the field in a Yankee camp. Not only does he not consider himself to be a soldier, but there is no evidence that the white soldiers considered him to be a soldier. I went on to suggest that our understanding of a soldier in the Confederate army ought to be built around their own understanding of this status."_ - Kevin M. Levin .
_"...here’s my problem with the Douglass account. During the spring and summer of 1861 Douglass was living in Rochester, New York, publishing the newspaper you cite from that city. Rochester’s a lot closer to Canada than Virginia. To my knowledge-and I’d love to be corrected if I’m wrong-he had not been to the front, nor had he seen “colored men…as real soldiers” with his own eyes. This is not an eyewitness account. Rather, it’s an editorial based on second and third-hand information and rumor that he had read and heard, notably it seems the account of black Confederates at Manassas that no historian of that battle has ever taken seriously as factual. (The account in the OR is simply an unverified rumor told by an unnamed local civilian that a general used to defend his poor performance at that battle.) Nor was he simply reporting. As David Blight demonstrates in the fourth chapter of "Frederick Douglass: Keeping Faith in Jubilee," Douglass was a fierce partisan who was using every tool at his disposal to serve as a “war propagandist” for a hard, unrelenting war that would end slavery by putting black men in blue uniforms. Indeed he was pulling out all the stops by September 1861, as Lincoln’s refusal to embrace abolition was driving Douglass up the wall. We all agree that the Confederate army was heavily dependent on enslaved labor, as I discuss even in my new book, but to cite this as proof of real, enlisted black soldiers, brothers in arms, is the equivalent of citing a Bill O’Reilly “opening memo” or Keith Olbermann “special comment” as definitive proof of the tribal makeup of the Taliban. When it comes to black Confederate soldiers, it’s a biased, unreliable, third-hand accounting written hundreds of miles from the battlefield for a specific political purpose. We have better, first-hand accounts of actual soldiers north and south that we can use more profitably."_ - Ken Noe _*"The account in the OR is simply an unverified rumor told by an unnamed local civilian that a general used to defend his poor performance at that battle."_ _"A footnote: by January 14, 1862, Douglass no longer believed at all that blacks were fighting for the Confederacy. In a revised and expanded version of the “Only One Hand” editorial that he gave as a speech in Philadelphia, he asserted flatly that “there are no black rebels. The black man at heart, even if found in the rebel camp, is a loyal man, forced out of his place by circumstances beyond his control.”_ .
This documentary is one-sided and ignores blacks who voluntarily fought for the Confederacy. For example, he ignores how some black Confederate troops responded to "Beast Butler's" question regarding the slave-holding Confederacy with slavery didn't matter, they would fight for the Confederacy anyway.
@@thesouthernhistorian4153 It was illegal. If there was why didn't Lee, Cleburne, Cobb, Toombs, and the rest of the CSA know about them when they were discussing enlistment of black men out of desperation at the end of the war?
@@ScottLedridge their are many examples one of the more well known is Holt Collier a African American who enlisted into company I of the 9th Texas dismounted cavalry regiment read his story
You need to watch H.K.Edgerton.
The Native Guard was disbanded by the La. State Senate within the first year of the war. The Native Guard was never used in combat and was not reconized by the Confederate Army and was used only for parades and guard duty.
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here in Missouri there was six black confederate regiments and four native American confederate regiments in 1861 and threw war mix races here faught for the south
Awesome! Thanks for the info.
+jeffery cook
What were the names of these black regiments?
Nonsense! No evidence whatsoever.
Just some revisionist BS, no blacks fought for the South.
Here in California we weren’t even officially commissioned.
I got problem with your low numbers on confederate soldiers here in Missouri there where 4.500 African American confederate soldiers a lone?
Mark Shaw There are no pictures, no write ups in the war time papers, there is no evidence of the existence of such black Confederate units at all. If there is, please show it, and convince us.
I listened for 3 minutes and I knew this guy was a disinformation zombie
Green has always been the most important color in this country
Just more lies from the north y'all need to read bout Rev Mack Lee Holt Collier
And not even Parker was a soldier, he was a slave made to place guns and maybe carry shot for loading. And that was all, the white gun crews did the firing. His story was then ghost written and embellished for propaganda purposes by an abolitionist who in general at the time were trying to shame the North into accepting black recruits.
None of this is new, it's all been looked at in detail by actual historians and discounted and discredited by peer review.
_His representative example of a black Confederate turned out to be none other than John Parker, who briefly manned a Confederate battery at First Manassas. Parker was the subject of a recent Disunion post by Kate Masur. Even a cursory glance at the historical record indicates that Parker was a slave. Stauffer admits this, but goes on to contend that his presence with the artillery battery rendered him a soldier. During the Q&A I pointed out that at no point in Parker’s account does he suggest to being a soldier. In fact, he admits that his freedom lay just across the field in a Yankee camp. Not only does he not consider himself to be a soldier, but there is no evidence that the white soldiers considered him to be a soldier. I went on to suggest that our understanding of a soldier in the Confederate army ought to be built around their own understanding of this status."_ - Kevin M. Levin
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_"...here’s my problem with the Douglass account. During the spring and summer of 1861 Douglass was living in Rochester, New York, publishing the newspaper you cite from that city. Rochester’s a lot closer to Canada than Virginia. To my knowledge-and I’d love to be corrected if I’m wrong-he had not been to the front, nor had he seen “colored men…as real soldiers” with his own eyes. This is not an eyewitness account. Rather, it’s an editorial based on second and third-hand information and rumor that he had read and heard, notably it seems the account of black Confederates at Manassas that no historian of that battle has ever taken seriously as factual. (The account in the OR is simply an unverified rumor told by an unnamed local civilian that a general used to defend his poor performance at that battle.) Nor was he simply reporting. As David Blight demonstrates in the fourth chapter of "Frederick Douglass: Keeping Faith in Jubilee," Douglass was a fierce partisan who was using every tool at his disposal to serve as a “war propagandist” for a hard, unrelenting war that would end slavery by putting black men in blue uniforms. Indeed he was pulling out all the stops by September 1861, as Lincoln’s refusal to embrace abolition was driving Douglass up the wall. We all agree that the Confederate army was heavily dependent on enslaved labor, as I discuss even in my new book, but to cite this as proof of real, enlisted black soldiers, brothers in arms, is the equivalent of citing a Bill O’Reilly “opening memo” or Keith Olbermann “special comment” as definitive proof of the tribal makeup of the Taliban. When it comes to black Confederate soldiers, it’s a biased, unreliable, third-hand accounting written hundreds of miles from the battlefield for a specific political purpose. We have better, first-hand accounts of actual soldiers north and south that we can use more profitably."_ - Ken Noe
_*"The account in the OR is simply an unverified rumor told by an unnamed local civilian that a general used to defend his poor performance at that battle."_
_"A footnote: by January 14, 1862, Douglass no longer believed at all that blacks were fighting for the Confederacy. In a revised and expanded version of the “Only One Hand” editorial that he gave as a speech in Philadelphia, he asserted flatly that “there are no black rebels. The black man at heart, even if found in the rebel camp, is a loyal man, forced out of his place by circumstances beyond his control.”_
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This documentary is one-sided and ignores blacks who voluntarily fought for the Confederacy. For example, he ignores how some black Confederate troops responded to "Beast Butler's" question regarding the slave-holding Confederacy with slavery didn't matter, they would fight for the Confederacy anyway.
There were no black Confederates.
It is one-sided and ignorant as hell
@@ScottLedridge that's a damned lie
@@thesouthernhistorian4153 It was illegal. If there was why didn't Lee, Cleburne, Cobb, Toombs, and the rest of the CSA know about them when they were discussing enlistment of black men out of desperation at the end of the war?
@@ScottLedridge their are many examples one of the more well known is Holt Collier a African American who enlisted into company I of the 9th Texas dismounted cavalry regiment read his story