bodecea
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Forgery or not, it still doesn't take away the fact that blacks fought for the Confederate cause.
It also fails to take into account that most of the men fighting for the confederacy also had handmade uniforms and their own weapons.
I don't understand why it's so hard to face the fact that blacks fought for the south. These people obviously don't have any knowledge about that part of history. Here in the County I live in our Commissioners just passed a resolution making April Confederate History and Heritage Month, since April marked the month that Texas joined the Confederate States. There was a little fuss about it at first, but most here realize that at the time 98 percent of Texans were not slave holders and that the Civil War wasn't about slavery as much as it was about States rights. I've included a copy of the resolution.
98% of Texans were not slaveholders?
Look at these stats:
Furman: Ratio of Slaveholders to Families