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PATCHES wrote:

I agree, there has to be. I have often heard that the Indian was treated better by the people in the south than those of the north. We, (the southerns) were here first you know and befriended them first. We were not afraid of each other.
My Mom just recently received my grandmother's family bible from her older sister. Just need some time to dig deep. LOL

Very cool I can't wait to hear all the good stuff, maybe even a Confederate Soldier or two will fall out when you shake that family tree...
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Reading about the Cubans in the Confederacy it reminds me of my grandfather on my mothers side who was Cuban born but his Parents were from Spain telling me about my ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. I'll have to ask him again their names but They did serve out of Florida. I haven't spoken with my grandfather about that since I was a kid but when I get more info I will post it. My gardfather also told me about Spaniard Cubans who believed wholeheartedly in the beliefs of the South & the Confederacy while still in Cuba. He also tells me how Cubans nowadays are nothing like the older Cuban generation.
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I can not wait to hear about you Cuban Family Confederates "TnRebelCSA", it sounds so interesting, please do post it when you get it!
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A Note to new members and visitors; After having read all of the above entries who in your mind has the greater history of bigotry, racism and intolerance? The Confederate States of America or the United States of America?
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TnRebelCSA wrote:

Reading about the Cubans in the Confederacy it reminds me of my grandfather on my mothers side who was Cuban born but his Parents were from Spain...

Wow, what part of Spain? Andalusia, Galicia, Asturias, Cataluna....?

I've spent over 2 years in Spain and love the country (though I'm sad to see it dying like Dixie). I wouldn't consider Spanish-Southerners to be minorities though because the Spanish are European. Most Mexicans are not, obviously, but the country that colonized them was - and still mostly is (recently Spain has been absolutely flooded with aliens, who now make up about 12% of the population and growing very, very quickly because the gov't in Spain refuses to do anything. Sound familiar?).
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unfortunately, the plagues of "political correctness" and "multiculturalism" are infecting once sovereign nations worldwide
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Here's an interesting article y'all should read...

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/07/State/In_defense_of_his_Con.shtml

Winbush believes the South seceded because the federal government taxed it disproportionately. "It was a matter of states' rights, not slavery, which was going extinct as the United States became more industrialized, he says. He denies that President Lincoln freed the slaves, explaining that the Emancipation Proclamation affected only the Confederate states, which were no longer under his authority."
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JohnnyReb wrote:

I read that once before. the thing about it is, he's exactly right.
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Black Confederate Cavalry Trooper; Holt Collier

Born in 1848 as a slave in Mississippi, he joined the Confederate military during the U.S. Civil War, serving with Company T of the Ninth Texas Cavalry in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. At the Battle of Shiloh he witnessed the death of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. Collier worked as a cowboy in Texas and returned to Mississippi to became a noted bear hunter, killing over 3,000 bears during his lifetime. He served as President Theodore Roosevelt's tracker during the President's famous Mississippi bear hunt of 1902. On that hunt, Roosevelt refused to shoot a wounded bear that Collier had rounded up for him — thus giving rise to the "Teddy Bear" craze. Collier served again as Roosevelt's tracker during a Louisiana bear hunt of 1907. Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi is named in Collier's honor. He died in 1936 and is buried in Greenville, Mississippi.
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The Chandler Boys,

Andrew & Silas

Enlisting in the Palo Alto Confederates in 1861 from his home in Palo Alto, Mississippi, at age 15 Andrew Martin Chandler was mustered into Co. F of Blythe's Mississippi Infantry, 44th Mississippi Infantry. He participated in several campaigns with his childhood playmate, friend and former slave, 17 year-old Silas Chandler.
Andrew was captured at Shiloh and was held prisoner in Ohio while Silas made repeated trips home to Mississippi to bring Andrew needed goods. Andrew was exchanged and he and Silas returned to their unit. Andrew was later wounded at Chickamauga. Army surgeons prepared to amputate his leg, but Silas used a piece of gold given to him by Andrew's mother to buy whiskey to bribe the surgeons to release him. He carried Andrew on his back for several miles and loaded him onto a boxcar heading to Atlanta - once there Andrew was taken to a hospital, where Silas cared for him until the family could join them - his leg, and possibly his life, were saved by Silas' attention and efforts.

The following is from a 1950 typed transcript of handwritten notes from an interview with Andrew Martin Chandler conducted in 1912:

"He served in the Confederate Army, and even in 1912, was still true to the cause. He told me much about his service in the army, even though he considered his contribution as rather slight, being that of less importance than any soldier in the ranks.

While there, he told me of another Silas Chandler that served with him in the Army. This Silas was a former slave owned by his parents, who was papered out just before the war. Even though he was granted his freedom, he insisted on going off to war with Andrew, partially because of their friendship, and partially because since Silas was a little older, he felt that he needed to protect Andrew. Andrew told me that even though Silas was considered a servant by the other men and blacks in the unit, he was very much an equal, displaying just as much hatred for the yankees as anyone in the whole unit!

Andrew then showed me an old picture of the two of them together, and while they appeared as mere boys, the look of stern determination on their faces tells the whole story of their dedication to each other and their country."

Andrew and Silas returned to Palo Alto, remained fast friends, lived close by each other and, in 1878, Andrew signed the papers which resulted in Silas receiving a Mississippi Confederate Veteran Pension.

Andrew gave Silas land adjoining one of the the Chandler plantations on which Silas built a church for the Black population of Palo Alto. Andrew Martin Chandler, born April 3, 1846, died May 7, 1920, and veteran of the 44th Mississippi Infantry, CSA, rests in Palo Alto beneath a gravestone decorated with Confederate symbols within the family graveyard, which is surrounded by a iron fence. Just across the road, the church Silas built still stands, and the past members of that church also lie in rest on all three sides of Andrew Chandler.

Silas Chander, Black Confederate veteran and faithful friend, lies eight to ten miles away, his grave now decorated with a Confederate Iron Cross deservedly placed there in a Confederate Honor Service eight years ago under the guidance of the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Andrew's Great-grandson, Andrew Chandler Battaile, still lives in Mississippi, while Silas' Great--grandson, Bobbie Chandler, lives the Northeast. About eight years ago, the two men reunited and restored the family relationship.
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