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The subject of Black Southerners who served in the War for Southern Independence is a missing chapter in American history. Over the last century, only a small number of books have addressed this subject - an amazing phenomenon when we consider that many War Between the States topics are covered literally hundreds and thousands of times.
Historians are able to document that blacks participated in all of our nation's wars from the American Revolution to the present. Then, could black Southerners have also served in support of Southern Armies during 1861-65?
As Edward Smith, Dean of Minority Affairs and Professor of History at American University, remarked in the August 1991 edition of The Civil War News, "to admit that blacks actually fought for a cause which in the minds of many 20th century Americans now stands exclusively for slavery and oppression is unacceptable to many in the country concerned with only politics and not with the realities of historical record."
Charles Kelly Barrow, a descendant of numerous Confederate soldiers, has conducted research for more than ten years. Mr. Barrow has enlisted the aid of many other historians during this time. The findings have been complied into two volumes and the results are astonishing!
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Jefferson Shields, Stonewall Jackson's Cook (ca. 1908)
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