Black Confederates
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Ex-Confederates Buchanan, W. L.
Drake, & Uncle Lewis Nelson (1920)
Tennessee Historical Quarterly
John Davis, carriage driver for the
Jefferson Davis family, holds a flag
at a memorial for the Confederate
president near Eastman, Ga. 1918.
Joe Sarter of Union, S.C. holds the
sword used by his father as a
Confederate sentry. (1993)
Johnny Orr (#14) gives his blessings to
compatriot Hermann Kendall (#41) in
the old southern evangelical tradition of
"laying on hands." .
Confederate reunion in Huntsville, Alabama, 1928.