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"The website for the SCV Camp 469 of Rome, GA (http://scvcamp469-nbf.com/hollandservice.htm) presents the following in relation to a black Confederate's grave:
"Sunday, September 08, 2002
The time came for Creed Holland to get the recognition he was due. He was a black slave, but also a Confederate soldier. And for such, Creed Holland was honored Saturday morning at a graveside ceremony in a small cemetery behind Riverview Baptist Church in Rocky Mount.
The Jubal Early chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
dedicated Confederate memorial markers to Creed Holland and two other
black Confederate soldiers, also named Holland, from Franklin County.
Hazel Holland Davis, a member of the Jubal Early chapter and
great-granddaughter of a Confederate soldier, organized the service as
part of a chapterwide project to identify Confederate soldiers' graves in
Franklin County.
The three Holland soldiers, of no known relation to each other or
to Davis, worked as slaves on Thomas J. Holland's 732-acre farm in Glade
Hill. Thomas Holland was Davis' great-great-grandfather.
The service was a rare memorial that honored the little-known Confederate soldiers: enslaved black soldiers.
About 45 Confederate re-enactors and members of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans performed the ceremony,
which included poems, speeches, prayers and customary military funeral rites such as cannonball volleys and rifle shots."
The article goes on in other detail (but I felt was too long to continue quoting here)."
Also, on the same forum, I posted:
"An intersting PDF file from the North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, dated Feb. 2002 (http://www.ncdcr.gov/news/2003/opa_2-26-03.pdf):
"Among the records in North Carolina’s archives that document African Americans’ service are newspaper enrollment notices that give times for free Negroes to enlist in the Confederate Army, correspondence, Confederate pension applications, and depositions. Some military records note that slaves helped to construct forts or do other work at military facilities. Other documentation can be found in the “North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865,” a 15-volume set of reference books that chronicles Confederate servicemen and includes the names of black soldiers."
"In some instances, officials even denied the existence of black Confederate soldiers. For instance, Sarah Venable, widow of John W. Venable, applied for a widow’s pension. Venable is listed in the “North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865,” as a member of Company H, 21
st Regiment N.C. Troops. The roster shows that he was “Negro, enlisted June 5, 1861. No further records.” However, John Sawyer, a white Confederate veteran who served with Venable, submitted a deposition as part of Sarah’s application stating that he knew John Venable, and that Venable had “made a good soldier.” Yet the claim was disallowed with the notation, “No law for this.”Any thoughts???
Last edited on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 09:26 pm by Albert Sailhorst