Black History Month - Remember Confederate Holt Collier, Co. I, 9th TX Cav.
Holt Collier and the History of the Teddy Bear Most people have never heard of Holt Collier – and those who have heard of the “Teddy...
Official Record - Richmond Howitzer Battery - Manned by Negroes - Aug. 11, 1861
Official Record Series I, Volume IV, page 568 Report of Colonel John W. Phelps, 1st Vermont Infantry "They--the enemy-talked of having...
Louis Napoleon Nelson - 7th Tennessee Cavalry
Nelson W. Winbush discusses his grandfather, Louis Napoleon Nelson
Frederick Douglass - "... the Negroes are numerous in the rebel army..." - Sept. 1861
Excerpt from the "Douglas Monthly", September 1861 Issue "It is now pretty well established, that there are at the present moment many...
Jerry Perkins - 3rd Tennessee Infantry
“Uncle” Jerry Perkins Charles Perkins enlisted at Brownsville, Tenn., under Capt. H. S. Bradford, who was afterwards Col. Bradford, of...
