http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/were-there-black-soldiers-in-july-1861-part-2/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/were-there-black-soldiers-in-july-1861-part-2/#comment-216 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:46:13 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=1464#comment-216 Hi Curtis. Thanks for the contribution. You should share this observation with Masur directly. I can tell you from personal experience that she is greatly concerned with factual accuracy.

]]> http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/were-there-black-soldiers-in-july-1861-part-2/#comment-215 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:21:32 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=1464#comment-215 The John Parker story is interesting, but most likely untrue. Confederate batteries suffered relatively few casualties during the battle. Certainly, no battery suffered 20 killed as suggested by Parker. Where is the supporting evidence–other than Parker’s claims–to support the assertion that this incident really occurred? If more substantive evidence is available, Mansur should have cited it. Given she did not, I can only assume she has none. Call me a skeptic, but this smacks of poor scholarship on the part of Mansur.

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