Black Confederate Warriors of Dixie

ROBERT  "BOB" STOVER Robert Stover Ceremony--June 7, 2014 Birth:  Jan. 12, 1846 Elizabethton Carter County Tennessee,...

Nelson W. Winbush, a black son of confederate black soldier Luis Napoleon Nelson who fought under Nathan Bedford Forest.

In the 1800s, an African-American man named Abe H. Officer was threatened with hanging to reveal the hiding location of two men being hunted...

The local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Soldiers has marked the grave of an African-American soldier who fought for the Confederacy m...

Story HERE

Reunion of the 3rd Tennessee Cavalry....... General Nathan Bedford Forrest's escort......the original scouts. Note Black Confederate rig...

 via Mijo Chard

Story HERE The United Daughters of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 900 held dedication ceremonies marking the graves of two bl...

From, Calvin Johnson

Terrill, an African-American slave from Williamson County (TN), was an escort on General Chalmer’s staff during the Civil War. Source: Will...

"The Forgotten Black Confederate Soldier" What we have been taught and come to believe has been edited, expurgated, abridged, cens...

We are often led to believe that somehow the War For Southern Independence was fought to allow the suppression of the Black man. These artic...

Aaron Perry was a Union County slave who followed his owner into the Confederate Army during the Civil War. For more than 80 years, Perry...

South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford spoke at a ceremony to honor the service of Henry Craig Sunday afternoon at the Old Pickens Presbyt...

A member of the Indiana Twentieth Regiment, now encamped near Fortress Monroe, writes to the Indianapolis Journal on the 23rd. Yesterday mor...

HK Edgerton , a black Confederate advocate, tells of his fondness for the South, the Confederacy, the distinction between the original Klan ...

Nelson Winbush at SCV Meeting Mr.and Mrs. Nelson Winbush SCV Member Nelson Winbush showing his Confederate pride in church Left to Right: C...

Part 1 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray' Part 2 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray' Part 3 'Bl...

Notwithstanding such losses the 22nd pushed onward against the retreating Yankees. Negro cook William Armistead of Company H, a mulatto bar...

By: Vernon R. Padgett, Ph.D. Of the many accounts of heroic black Confederates, here are some that especially stand out: George Washington Y...

The Norfolk Day Book says: A citizen of Hampton, a captain in the Confederate army, and at present stationed on York river, has brought us i...

George W Stiles Commanding 18th Georgia Battalion Colored Cooks James Polk, Company B Scipio Africanus ,Company B William Read, Company C Jo...

A dispatch from Raleigh, North Carolina, says that at a meeting of the L, O'Branch camp of Confederate Veterans of that city a resolutio...

WHAT THE NEGRO IS DOING: Matters of Interest among thee Colored People, Butler, H.R. Atlanta Constitution Nov 4, 1900 Lower part of a...

NEGRO WHO COOKED FOR GEN. LEE TALKS TO GEORGIA HOUSE Was Heard Ten Minutes When Escorted In By Confederate Vets. (Special to The Banne...

Mattie Clyburn Rice is the second black "Real Daughter" to be recognized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mattie Clybur...

Macon Telegraph Feb 2, 1895 The Old Man Remembered The Governor Rewards a Faithful Old Negro Servant Atlanta Feb 1st (special) Governor Atki...

Georgia Weekly Telegraph Journal and Messenger August 5, 1881 Page 8 The Wealthiest Colored Man in Georgia Atlanta Dispatch to the Cincinnat...

Athens Daily Banner May 28, 1901 Page 1 Negro Veteran Dies In Columbia "UNCLE BILLY" ROSE DEAD A South Carolina Negro Veteran Of T...

The fortifications at Centerville (distinguished by the letters of the alaphabet), have the number of embrasures, and wooden guns pointing t...

Apparently this blog is drawing some attention which I enjoy. One idea is that somehow nurses don't count as soldiers. You have to look...

http://www.blackconfederatesoldiers.com/ Well there ya go!!!! The info I was searching for is sitting here all along. Georgia pension record...

Of course many forget or deny the incredible service of women to the Confederacy and we don't know if they saw or experienced battle but...

This website by Scott K. Williams estimates 65,000 with 13,000 soldiers actually involved in combat. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/s...

Historian, Erwin L. Jordan, Jr., calls it a cover-up which started back in 1865. He writes, “During my research, I came across instances whe...

Weekly Banner Sept 21, 1904 page 5 Negro fought for the South And is now a Regularly Enlisted Pensioner of Uncle Sam's Swainsboro, Georg...

Athens Daily Banner April 27, 1901 Page 1 No Pensions for Negros Carolina Board decides against all colored applicants Columbia South Caroli...

Athens Banner January 17, 1911 Page 4 A movement looking to the erection of monuments dedicated to the slaves of the Southern Confederacy in...

Weekly Banner, Feb. 1, 1901 -- page 5 An Ex Slaves Generosity Memphis Jan 29 The Finance Committee of the Confederate Veterans Reunion has r...

Confederates of Color Camp Morton Prison Confederate Soldiers and Sailors who died at Indianapolis, Ind. while prisoners of war Alabama Ada...

Banner-Watchman Athens, Mar. 10, 1885 -- page 1 Jack Turner one of the most reliable negroes in Columbus died Friday night. jack Served as a...

Macon Telegraph, Jun. 2, 1901 -- page 11 Jere May was delighted Jere May, the negro mail carrier whose greatest boast is that he was a Con...

Athens Daily Banner, Apr. 9, 1901 Page 1 "Columbia, South Carolina April 8th Confederate Veterans are considerably exercised over the f...

Southern Banner, Mar. 18, 1863 -- page 2 Second Dispatch Columbia Tennessee , March 12 The enemy are greatly suprised and exasperated at Van...

Southern Watchman, Feb. 15, 1865 -- page 3 Congressional Richmond February 6th Mr. Morse introduced a resolution directing the Committee on ...

http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x349137771/Historical-society-sets-date-to-dedicate-Dalton-marker "The Georgia Historical Society h...

A Black Confederate. The Atlanta Constitution (1881-1945); Aug 4, 1889; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)...

Pictured above is Doctor Clinton Rogers he followed his master Dr. Rogers of Griffin into the war and was by his side in many noted battles....

MUSTER ROLL OF CO. A, 1st REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY (OLMSTEAD'S), ARMY OF TENNESSEE C. S. A.,CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA McCleskey...

When the war started in 1861 there were public demonstrations of support for the Confederacy by blacks throughout the South (Wesley, 1937, p...

"Angered at the loss of life at the hands of blacks at Manassas and somewhat disillusioned the northern Exchange editorialized: 'Th...

Tennessee in June 1861 became the first in the South to legislate the use of free black soldiers. The governor was authorized to enroll thos...

- (Notice that these blacks were paroled and exchanged just as white soldiers would have been. It should be noted that most if not all captu...

“Wednesday, September 10.–At four o’clock this morning the rebel army began to move from our town "Frederick, Maryland," Jackson’s...

After the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, ...reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in Confederate uniforms fully armed as ...

The 21-foot high granite obelisk, stands in a residential area on Academy Street, E. Canton, MS in front of a cemetery. It was built in the ...

Chattanooga, TN. Confederate Cemetery

PETERSBURG - The 7th annual Richard Poplar Day Memorial will honor Pvt. Richard Poplar this Saturday during National POW/MIA Recognition Wee...

Mulatto Confederate Soldier Daniel Jenkins and his wife. Jenkins was with the Confederate 9th Kentucky Infantry and was killed at Shiloh on...

Reader, please read the below. The union generals and soldiers had a profound dislike for blacks. They belittled them at every opportunity, ...