A Black Confederate General That We Can All Embrace? |
A Black Confederate General That We Can All Embrace?
Civil War Memory: Reflections of a High School History Teacher & Civil War Historian
2011-03-17
Kevin M. Levin, Instructor of American History
Gann Academy, Waltham, Massachusetts
I trust that after this post no one will accuse me of dismissing any and all evidence for the existence of black Confederate soldiers. Better yet, I give you at least one black Confederate general. The interesting question is whether the Sons of Confederate Veterans and others will accept him as one of their own…
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