The Touchy Subject of Black Confederate Soldiers

[Quantrill]

Stop making excuses white ---.

Blacks didn't willingly fight for the Confederacy. Stop trying to deny the shit whites have done.

That's no excuse black ....ole. I just thought you would be glad that those mean white devils didn't force their slaves to fight for the Confederacy.

Maybe those white devils were not as mean as they are made out to be.

Quantrill

 

[JoeB131]

No, you haven't given answers.

Sure I have. It's just not one that pro-Confederate people like to hear. They want to hear that slavery was benevolent and they were fighting a noble lost cause.


They were fighting because a few rich people wanted to own slaves and they were terrified of black people.

The leadership of the North wanted the legal validity for their military victory. Trying Jeff Davis and secession for treason would give it, they thought. Their lawyers after studying the legality of it, backed away saying it was a losing case. The North if it pursued this would be found as the one who started that war. The North would be seen as traitor to the Constitution. The North would be seen as guilty of treason.

Well, no, what the North wanted to do was end slavery and then try to go back to "normal" as quickly as possible.

The problem was, they didn't want to try anyone, not just Davis. Lee, Stephens, most of the traitors were never imprisoned at all, and then Andrew the Feckless gave everyone a pardon.

This was a historical mistake we are still paying for today.

 

[JoeB131]

Even though the guilt of the treasonous Jefferson Davis isn't the topic of this thread, there's this little tidbit I reminded myself of.

A Confederate in Canada

Davis “retired within the car. Three cheers more and one for Mrs. Davis were then given, and the cars moved away toward Lennoxville, where he and his family alighted and were again the recipients of a hearty reception from the crowd awaiting him.”

querythepast.com

Jefferson Davis fled to Quebec in 1867, after he was released on bail, and stayed there until Confederates were pardoned.

This is not a guy who wanted his day in court. This is a guy who hid in another country until the coast was clear.

The time Confederate leader Jefferson Davis came to Canada to give the new country defence tips

At the time, Jefferson Davis was a marked man blamed by Northerners and Southerners alike for the deadliest war in U.S. history

nationalpost.com

A mere 14 years later, the lands of Canada would seem just as welcoming to a man who could not have been more opposite to John Henry Hill. In fact, it was a man who had given up his political career, his fortune and even his freedom to ensure that men like Hill remained enslaved.
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In May, 1867, few Canadians noticed when a train trundled into Montreal carrying Jefferson Davis, the deposed president of the Confederate States of America.
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Davis was a marked man blamed by Northerners and Southerners alike for the deadliest war in U.S. history, and after a harrowing train journey through New York — where he would have needed to avoid the gaze of war widows and crippled veterans alike — Davis was just happy to be in a country where nobody recognized him.
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“My trip was so devoid of incident that like the weary knife grinder, I have no tale to tell,” he wrote in a letter to his brother.