God Bless you, our black brethren. Your ancestors had been through so much. It’s just beyond words. Horrible isn’t enough to describe what you’ve been through. God Bless, from the Philippines.
Notice how it's always about AMERICAN slavery, which existed for only 90 years, while the rest of the world gets a free pass for all of HISTORY. Obviously to HIDE the fact that the USA is a REIGN OF TERROR since Lincoln.
Started as an african-american man doing slavery work and getting beaten up by the confederates. Now wears his blue yankee uniform and held a musket then pointed at their enemies.
@William Wills ~ Careful what you see here on TH-cam. The " Lost Cause" of Jubel Early, Jefferson Davis and other Confederates and NeoConfederates is alive and well....sadly. They distort and and take things out of context knowing few will actually take the time to look things up and read in context what was actually meant. I was lied to in my high school class about the Civil War and it's causes. ( in 1970s New Jersey ! ) Read history forward...before the Civil War started, the soon to be Confederates wrote much about WHY they were Succeeding. AFTER the war, they lied their faces off because they knew how the future would see them.
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union In the momentous step, which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course. Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
Imagine that finally you have escaped slavery in the south and have guns and arr killing your former masters and freeing your brothers . Not all heroes wear capes ....
I have at least a dozen ancestors who fought in the Civil War. They were assigned to the “Colored Troops” infantry regiments. My 3rd great grandfather Moses Hammond was given land abandoned by former plantation owners in Mt Airy, MD.
1:06 Sergeant Major Lewis Douglass Left 54th Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment. First Sergeant Charles Redmond Douglass Right 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Cavalry Regiment. 1:11 Major General Benjamin F. Butler US Army Issued the Butler Medal for service in The United States Colored Troops USCT Division under his command. 1:29 First Sergeant Harry Henry and Company E 4th US Colored Troops USCT.
0:58 And they'd have to keep proving themselves again, and again, and again, and again, arguably up until the Gulf War. I'm glad I could enlist freely, but this country didn't deserve these men or their sacrifice.
_this country didn't deserve these men or their sacrifice._ May I disagree? It is just because this country had such men in it that it deserved them. Do not condemn the US because it isn't perfect, for no country or nation is or every will be. This country is just the best that this world has seen, and for me that's good enough to keep fighting for it, to make it even better. You are worth it, so America is worth it.
Question for every one here: Does anyone know any other essential movies besides Glory one needs to watch when thinking of blacks union soldiers ? I'm especially interested in the psychological aspect; being proud to be fighting for black freedom, but then ending fighting til death for the cause... Also, any movies out there involving runaway slaves joining the union ???
Man, If you were an African-American Confederate soldier.. That had to be tough. Fighting a war for something you were against but had no choice in. Sacrificing yourself for your own lack of freedom.
There is no documented evidence of African-American Confederate combatants existing. No enlistment records, no pay stubs, no newspaper/journal articles mentioning any such thing. Some were pressed into military labor (carrying ammo, supplies etc.) but highly doubt any were ever trusted with arms, for obvious reasons.
@@roswellcrashsurvivor6726 What you say is absolutely true, there's no evidence nor records of Black Slaves serving for the Confederacy, however they are evidence of ship dock working slaves that worked as the the cleaning crews for navy ships, which was a non combat role, but that's pretty much it, no evidence of Combat roles.
@@roswellcrashsurvivor6726 there is absolutely no evidence that blacks fought on the Confederate side the Cherokee and the Algonquin Indians brutally scalped people on the Northern side
The Rhythm the civil war was NOT about slavery!! The history we are taught is not the truth. If Lincoln was about freeing slaves then why when the north won did they keep slaves? The truth is very hard to find when we’ve been lied to for so long.
US Grant said the most reasonable thing when it came to the Confederacy after the war was over: "I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us."
@TheStapleGunKid `~ You are lying ~ Grant busted up the KKK, Grant freed the slave he inherited from his wife's family in 1859. ( even though he was very poor ) It was not until after Grant's Presidency that the back room deal was struck to end ReConstruction. Grant knew why he was fighting, Grant never wavered. Grant didn't have the casualty rates that were high until he started to fight Lee in the East. You are a Neo Confederate, and you lie through your teeth ( if you have any )
What often seems to be overlooked is that slavery was still going on in the North such as in maryland until the 13th amendment passed and many african-american men in the North still had little voting rights until the 15th amendment passed so although discrimination in the South is often the focus (and there was more slavery in south obviously) there was still discrimination in North
Of course, for culture changes slowly, one step at a time. The border states were not ordered to free their slaves in order to keep them from seceding, too. That they did not join the Confederacy shortened the war and saved lives. It was enough that slavery in Maryland ended after the war. Eventually, discrimination would fade because of the long work of WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King and those who worked alongside them, which included whites.
0:08 That's weird. The poster behind him says men of color but he said African Americans. Also at 0:23 The poster says Colored Regiments. 2:38 Now the narrator goes back to black soldiers. C'mon make up your minds!
@Ghost Hannibal Mortem Let's get the NAACP to change their name too. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People! C'mon make up your minds people!
Not in every state, some areas outside the South did not implement Jim Crow after the Civil War. And as the previous response to you said, it was at least a step in the right direction.
Sadly slavery or human trafficking as it's called today still exists but it's not really forced labor more so prostitution but it's illegal in most countries America being one of them but as you know some people don't follow the law
@@milkeggsnproducemilkeggsnp9076 the union army was against slavery and the federalist was the first to put black soldiers on the front line. While the confederates were advocates for slavery and jim crow. These were the original democrats
Freeing the slaves is one thing, but what are they supposed to do with that freedom once they have it?. How they are going to get jobs if they can't read or write?.
Up until the 30s, mass education in USA didn't exist. Even most whites were poor and illeterate. 1800s USA would resemble more of India or Thailand rather than the USA you are familiar with today.
@Alex Weight No, but some were forced to labor for the Confederacy. In the North, it took whites refusing to fight, and Lincoln needed soldiers so he and Grant turned to the Freemen and runaways for help.
@@maxolcat1281 A teacher from Newton High School is teaching kids the civil war was over "States Rights". Basically deminishing the human rights violation.
Kinda what’s going on today. All black liberation movements are jacked (black lives matter).Than they tell thier version of the truth. Research the gulla war outside of TH-cam.
They called them buffalo soldiers because if the Rebels shot them, the Union could loot their bodies for meat, and if they won, it was a free victory for the Yankees. Too much sensationalism in modern retelling of the war, literally Africans that didn't know any English were being shipped to the Union to fight a war that had noting to do with them, Bob Marley even sang a pop song about it
LOL "From slavery to forever free" That's what Lenin said, along with Mao and Robespierre. "EGALITE, LIBERTE! FRATERNITE!" While ONE MAN HOLDS ABSOLUTE POWER. Yeah... ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR FRICKIN' MIND.
African Americans did not see combat in the Civil War. I’m sick of these lies the reality of it is these men never got to see action it is a shame but it’s the truth I am so sick of this one picture the only picture that they can show for the horrors of slavery Keep using the same damn picture for 200 years. We all know slavery is horrible people working all day and all night for no money and very little food. But it doesn’t make sense to harm your workforce to the point where they can’t work.
Thor How’s that when 16 black soldiers won medals for they brave contribution in the war? And how’s that when there’s black deaths in direct combat? Also: “Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, as well.” And “Because of prejudice against them, black units were not used in combat as extensively as they might have been. Nevertheless, the soldiers served with distinction in a number of battles. Black infantrymen fought gallantly at Milliken's Bend, LA; Port Hudson, LA; Petersburg, VA; and Nashville, TN. The July 1863 assault on Fort Wagner, SC, in which the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers lost two-thirds of their officers and half of their troops, was memorably dramatized in the film Glory. By war's end, 16 black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honor for their valor.” Quotes from the national archives on black union soldiers. Seems to me you got yaself a problem.
Yes they did there's multiple battles of Black Union Soldiers fighting, for example the Battle of Jenkins were heroic Black Union Troops faught and killed over 1000 Traitorous Rebels.
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God Bless you, our black brethren. Your ancestors had been through so much. It’s just beyond words. Horrible isn’t enough to describe what you’ve been through. God Bless, from the Philippines.
Thank you for saying so. I’m only third generation free. The right to vote wasn’t until 1965!
❤💔
🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thank God for those brave soldiers
Down with the Traitors, Up with the Stars!
And Bars
While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again,
We will fill our vacant ranks with a Million Freedmen more.
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
Notice how it's always about AMERICAN slavery, which existed for only 90 years, while the rest of the world gets a free pass for all of HISTORY.
Obviously to HIDE the fact that the USA is a REIGN OF TERROR since Lincoln.
They fought for a country that hated them and were still true to their country nonetheless. They are true heroes. Nothing but mad respect for them.
They're Now Free In Their Graves And Their Descendants
Now Forever Free.
Few things give me more joy than watching the Union Army completely obliterating the Confederacy on the field of battle.
Then they saved on car insurance
that's the dude from all stae no? haha
Christopher Kopke: which the GOVERNMENT REQUIRED in order to exercise basic liberty.
Thank, and I can’t stress this enough, goodness
Haha black niagah
Started as an african-american man doing slavery work and getting beaten up by the confederates. Now wears his blue yankee uniform and held a musket then pointed at their enemies.
Now and Forever Free. Heaven is for Heroes. R.I.P.
Thanks for helping me with my homework
@William Wills ~ Careful what you see here on TH-cam. The " Lost Cause" of Jubel Early, Jefferson Davis and other Confederates and NeoConfederates is alive and well....sadly. They distort and and take things out of context knowing few will actually take the time to look things up and read in context what was actually meant. I was lied to in my high school class about the Civil War and it's causes. ( in 1970s New Jersey ! ) Read history forward...before the Civil War started, the soon to be Confederates wrote much about WHY they were Succeeding. AFTER the war, they lied their faces off because they knew how the future would see them.
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union
In the momentous step, which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
Imagine that finally you have escaped slavery in the south and have guns and arr killing your former masters and freeing your brothers . Not all heroes wear capes ....
The majority of confederates soldiers didn't personally have slaves though
@@naypo231but we’re still racist to uphold slavery. Plus many were overseers who torched blacks all the time.
Why would a person would have the need to lay down their life for a right so basic as freedom... This makes me tear up
Thats how the devil works
Because there are greedy evil people who want you in chains for their own benefit.
Call it basic for you but men died for that right
just like in the revolutionary war. it always happens. Freedom isnt free.
I have at least a dozen ancestors who fought in the Civil War. They were assigned to the “Colored Troops” infantry regiments. My 3rd great grandfather Moses Hammond was given land abandoned by former plantation owners in Mt Airy, MD.
this should be shared 1000000000000 over
I love that black people fought with us
We All One Brotha ✊🏾
Black lives matter ✊🏾
+1 brother, +1
Amen
Thank you🙏
Very interesting...
1:06 Sergeant Major Lewis Douglass Left
54th Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
First Sergeant Charles Redmond Douglass Right
5th Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Cavalry Regiment.
1:11 Major General Benjamin F. Butler US Army
Issued the Butler Medal for service in The United States Colored Troops USCT Division under his command.
1:29 First Sergeant Harry Henry and Company E 4th US Colored Troops USCT.
May they always be remembered, thanked, and imitated.
If I could have President Palmer/Lambert/All-State man read everything to me I'd probably never forget it, dude has such a great voice
Appreciation from Finland to these brave freedom fighters, the fight it isn't over yet for racial equality ✊.
As a Mexican I respect these men fought for the equal rights and freedoms I have today
I guess somebody read the call to arms to the brothers who weren’t allowed to be taught to read. Whatever the case, glad they got the memo.
I would have enlisted if I was at that time. but also thank god for those brave soldiers.
0:58 And they'd have to keep proving themselves again, and again, and again, and again, arguably up until the Gulf War.
I'm glad I could enlist freely, but this country didn't deserve these men or their sacrifice.
_this country didn't deserve these men or their sacrifice._
May I disagree? It is just because this country had such men in it that it deserved them. Do not condemn the US because it isn't perfect, for no country or nation is or every will be. This country is just the best that this world has seen, and for me that's good enough to keep fighting for it, to make it even better. You are worth it, so America is worth it.
I can not unsee Allstate guy
Question for every one here: Does anyone know any other essential movies besides Glory one needs to watch when thinking of blacks union soldiers ? I'm especially interested in the psychological aspect; being proud to be fighting for black freedom, but then ending fighting til death for the cause... Also, any movies out there involving runaway slaves joining the union ???
Emancipation with Will Smith was just released...in limited locations.
Political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
It's never no fun when the rabbit's got the gun.
Hey this guy voice was in call of duty finest hour
Somethings you have to fight and bleed for.
The guy with the PHD is the only one with real logic,
Man, If you were an African-American Confederate soldier.. That had to be tough. Fighting a war for something you were against but had no choice in. Sacrificing yourself for your own lack of freedom.
There is no documented evidence of African-American Confederate combatants existing. No enlistment records, no pay stubs, no newspaper/journal articles mentioning any such thing. Some were pressed into military labor (carrying ammo, supplies etc.) but highly doubt any were ever trusted with arms, for obvious reasons.
@@roswellcrashsurvivor6726 What you say is absolutely true, there's no evidence nor records of Black Slaves serving for the Confederacy, however they are evidence of ship dock working slaves that worked as the the cleaning crews for navy ships, which was a non combat role, but that's pretty much it, no evidence of Combat roles.
@@roswellcrashsurvivor6726 there is absolutely no evidence that blacks fought on the Confederate side the Cherokee and the Algonquin Indians brutally scalped people on the Northern side
The Rhythm the civil war was NOT about slavery!! The history we are taught is not the truth. If Lincoln was about freeing slaves then why when the north won did they keep slaves? The truth is very hard to find when we’ve been lied to for so long.
@@Danielle33384 clearly you skipped the 13-15th amendments to the constitution
US Grant said the most reasonable thing when it came to the Confederacy after the war was over:
"I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us."
@TheStapleGunKid `~ You are lying ~ Grant busted up the KKK, Grant freed the slave he inherited from his wife's family in 1859. ( even though he was very poor ) It was not until after Grant's Presidency that the back room deal was struck to end ReConstruction. Grant knew why he was fighting, Grant never wavered. Grant didn't have the casualty rates that were high until he started to fight Lee in the East. You are a Neo Confederate, and you lie through your teeth ( if you have any )
its brighter here just finished talking about slavery
We all came here for homework didnt we?
yea😂😂
All state is that you?
Open eyes still travel blind,freedom will not come till father come.
Gordon is a free man now
i bet you came here for online history class/ social studies.
facts
What often seems to be overlooked is that slavery was still going on in the North such as in maryland until the 13th amendment passed and many african-american men in the North still had little voting rights until the 15th amendment passed so although discrimination in the South is often the focus (and there was more slavery in south obviously) there was still discrimination in North
Regardless after victory was secured slavery was abolished in the United States thanks In part of the US Soldier
Of course, for culture changes slowly, one step at a time. The border states were not ordered to free their slaves in order to keep them from seceding, too. That they did not join the Confederacy shortened the war and saved lives. It was enough that slavery in Maryland ended after the war. Eventually, discrimination would fade because of the long work of WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King and those who worked alongside them, which included whites.
Maryland is a Southern state, though. It's below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Jefferson Peoples ❤ my 4th great grandfather
The best color regiment is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
200,000 Black former slaves became Northern Soldiers?
Every, single Confederate would have been massacred if Lee hadn't surrendered.
Actually most of the 200,000 black soldiers in the Union army grew up in the North and spent their whole lives as free men.
im trying to find a movie or something on former slaves fighting for the union army anyone got any recommendations
You should try the movie Glory.
Glory for sure
Not all black union soldiers were former slaves. Get yours facts right please...
Like 98 percent were though so 😂
Bro, he didn’t SAY that all black union soldiers were slaves. He said slaves and freed black men.
0:08 That's weird. The poster behind him says men of color but he said African Americans. Also at 0:23 The poster says Colored Regiments. 2:38 Now the narrator goes back to black soldiers. C'mon make up your minds!
@Ghost Hannibal Mortem Let's get the NAACP to change their name too. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People! C'mon make up your minds people!
@@loudmouthnewyorker2803 I don't get what your problem is?
Allstate are you in good hands
Forever free into Jim Crow law...gamble your life to get free. Russian roulette
You gotta start somewhere though, even today there's Republicans that look at blacks as not even human.
Not in every state, some areas outside the South did not implement Jim Crow after the Civil War. And as the previous response to you said, it was at least a step in the right direction.
intense All-State commercial..
Ironically ... Thousands freely joined the confederate army too ( not as slaves )
That’s a lost cause lie
Free? Free, in what way? We're still in captivity behind enemy lines
What enemy are you referring to cause i can have the opportunity to leave whenever i want to and not have to worry about no enemy in todays age
WHO SAID WE ARE FREE?
“free forever” more like free until 1877
@@carstarsarstenstesenn 😆
hi friends lets see if anyone who goes to fpms finds this comment
but did they fight with white soldiers? or were these men in their own divisions?
They had their own division the army was segregated
The military was segregated until the Korean War i believe.
APUSH anyone?
But all of the slavery really free? Think about
Sadly slavery or human trafficking as it's called today still exists but it's not really forced labor more so prostitution but it's illegal in most countries America being one of them but as you know some people don't follow the law
There's no such thing as freedom. Only different degrees of slavery.
Free? Free into Jim Crow? Smh
Many enlisted knowing what would happen to them if they were captured by the Confederates. An automatic death sentence.
That or being sent into slavery.
I THANK GOD FOR ALL THE FREE BLACK MEN WHO FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH . God Bless The CSA ...
I really cant understand how a black man can fight for the confederate army 🤦🏾♂️ like...... how
@@milkeggsnproducemilkeggsnp9076 the union army was against slavery and the federalist was the first to put black soldiers on the front line. While the confederates were advocates for slavery and jim crow. These were the original democrats
@@richcollins4208 That doesn't change the fact that black confederates aren't really a thing.
Are you in good hands?
@Travis The Maximus My childhood
AB3121 STATES the facts. Not this assimilation tactic.
Funny, are they seriously free now in this country?
yes
Only through Christ we will be free
Freeing the slaves is one thing, but what are they supposed to do with that freedom once they have it?. How they are going to get jobs if they can't read or write?.
STEVE P I believe they were forced to serve
Davzviet they became sharecroppers
Up until the 30s, mass education in USA didn't exist. Even most whites were poor and illeterate.
1800s USA would resemble more of India or Thailand rather than the USA you are familiar with today.
STEVE P not all jobs needed education plus most whites didn't know how to read or write
@Alex Weight No, but some were forced to labor for the Confederacy. In the North, it took whites refusing to fight, and Lincoln needed soldiers so he and Grant turned to the Freemen and runaways for help.
FREE or not i mean
I hate they keep calling us blacks
I wasn't paying attention at first because it thought it was an All-State ad.
That's cool and all, But what about the part where when the black soldiers came home from the war they were lycnhed 🤔🤔🤔
There is a Teacher in Newton Senior High school trying to Deminish the Tragedy of Slavery in America.
This Teacher is in Newton Iowa.
What is being done? From Dubuque?
@@maxolcat1281 who cares about dubuque?
The problem is in Newton Iowa
@@Gfish17 I was genuinely asking you a question about what is being done in Newton to diminish slavery. I am from Dubuque..
@@maxolcat1281 A teacher from Newton High School is teaching kids the civil war was over "States Rights".
Basically deminishing the human rights violation.
@@Gfish17 Hopefully hes not a history/ social studies teacher. Thats ridiculous
Kinda what’s going on today. All black liberation movements are jacked (black lives matter).Than they tell thier version of the truth. Research the gulla war outside of TH-cam.
republicans.. that’s how
Forever free 😂
“Forever free”
Don’t get me wrong, our nation has come a long way.
But it wasn’t as black and white back then either
0:27 lol that is a lie and the lied to them...
The universe always corrects the wrong.
God bless the republican party and president lincoln for the union army and freeing our people from the democratic south.
Hilarious…
all-state are you in good hands
What about all the black soldiers that VOLUNTEERED to fight for the confederacy
Funny joke
@@WanderingLibertarian It's a hilarious one though.
They called them buffalo soldiers because if the Rebels shot them, the Union could loot their bodies for meat, and if they won, it was a free victory for the Yankees. Too much sensationalism in modern retelling of the war, literally Africans that didn't know any English were being shipped to the Union to fight a war that had noting to do with them, Bob Marley even sang a pop song about it
That's the most ridiculos lie if I ever heard one.
ALL LIES
LOL "From slavery to forever free"
That's what Lenin said, along with Mao and Robespierre. "EGALITE, LIBERTE! FRATERNITE!"
While ONE MAN HOLDS ABSOLUTE POWER.
Yeah... ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR FRICKIN' MIND.
That’s what Tomas Jefferson said too
African Americans did not see combat in the Civil War.
I’m sick of these lies the reality of it is these men never got to see action it is a shame but it’s the truth
I am so sick of this one picture the only picture that they can show for the horrors of slavery
Keep using the same damn picture for 200 years. We all know slavery is horrible people working all day and all night for no money and very little food. But it doesn’t make sense to harm your workforce to the point where they can’t work.
what are the evidences of that?
Thor How’s that when 16 black soldiers won medals for they brave contribution in the war? And how’s that when there’s black deaths in direct combat? Also:
“Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, as well.”
And
“Because of prejudice against them, black units were not used in combat as extensively as they might have been. Nevertheless, the soldiers served with distinction in a number of battles. Black infantrymen fought gallantly at Milliken's Bend, LA; Port Hudson, LA; Petersburg, VA; and Nashville, TN. The July 1863 assault on Fort Wagner, SC, in which the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers lost two-thirds of their officers and half of their troops, was memorably dramatized in the film Glory. By war's end, 16 black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honor for their valor.”
Quotes from the national archives on black union soldiers. Seems to me you got yaself a problem.
Thor hey dumbass you might want to look up the 54Th Massachusetts Regiment
Yes they did there's multiple battles of Black Union Soldiers fighting, for example the Battle of Jenkins were heroic Black Union Troops faught and killed over 1000 Traitorous Rebels.
Thor please do your research before you comment
Sounds good but not the truth. Who wouldn't take that opportunity considering. Now the Gument do it to us All baby.