How This Black Confederate Changed History. 

Thanks for stopping in Brandon, pass it on before it disappears

Truth is, 200,000 black men served in the Union military and many of them were Southerners. Confederate military? Not so much.

@@LanceAlot-ww2ib Thanks for your Wikipedia education but some of us actually read these things called books and we know that those 200,000 black men in the Union were used as cannon fodder

Happy Veterans Day. I really love your channel and watch and rewatch your videos. I don't know if you'll see this but will you be doing any more videos on RU-vid? Can l find your content anywhere else? Thank you for keeping these special people alive for us. May God bless you always 🤗 🇺🇸

​@LanceAlot-ww2ib I think you need to read Allan Nevins 8-volume history of the American Civil War and learn the error of your statement

Nothing changes the fact that the Confederacy enslaved 38% of its population.

How cool! Thanks for sharing that story Daniel, and for stopping in!

grandpap rod sounds like a real one.

God bless the 200,000 black men who fought for the Union

​@LanceAlot-ww2ib It is unfortunate that they had done themselves a great disservice in the long run.

​@@LanceAlot-ww2ibYou really need to read more...

School doesn't teach you every detail of history. It teaches you how to read.

Thanks TN. I’m about to dust myself off and climb back in the saddle this month. Hope I can make up my absence to everyone.

@BirdDogg I'm curious why you never do any videos about the overwhelming majority of black combatants in the Civil War who fought for the Union, many of whom were Southerners and escaped slaves?

@@elijahfreeman5299 I actually have done several about them as well as interviews with former slaves etc. With that said, content that generates discussion gets more traction

@BirdDogg You did do one video about black soldiers who fought for the Union, true. But your angle was to attack the Union for paying them less than white soldiers, which was the later rectified by Congress. Their service to the Union was not the focus of your video. It would appear that most of your audience loves stories about the handful of armed blacks who fought for their slave masters.

@@elijahfreeman5299 Well, that was all factual, except the actual premise was that they paid the black soldiers less than the confederacy paid black servants following the army. I also did videos about the atrocities of slavery with actual audio from slaves, and on the black troops in Charleston. But yeah, the numbers speak for themselves, those videos don’t get much traction. I don’t really see an issue with portraying great black Americans regardless of wether they fit with the norm, in fact their exceptionalism is what makes their stories worth telling. At the root of it though I try and share the parts of history that folks would rather forget and pretend never happened, I try to show the grey areas, not just the black and white.

Who cares? 😹

You don't understand liberals. H.C. was a product of his times, and a fine one.

As an "Uncle Tom", if they remember him at all

Liberals know a lot more about this war than many conservatives with their heads stuck, apparently, deep in the sand. We remember, but more--we understand.@@dwightcurrie8316

They don't. That would require them to do their own research, and if they did that they couldn't stay liberals.

Thanks Shaka, slowly dusting myself off and getting back in the saddle.

Yeah, that’s all pretty well documented, this however is specifically about the gray areas rather than the black and white(as is most of my content.)

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Thanks for listening!

Thanks Mark, hope you find some more content you enjoy here on the channel.

Thanks for stopping in Alex! Was an honor to get to meet Chad and load him up with ice and water, was super hot. Fully in awe of what he is doing.

Very very few black people in the Confederacy were allowed to carry a gun. Like you said, most were slaves hired out by their masters in service to the Confederate government.

😂 never know where I’ll turn up

@@BirdDogg I didn't know you were a fellow skater, too. Up'd your all ready cool factor. 😎

Ehh, life happens, kids, family etc. I’m face down in it myself working towards getting back to a position where I can make videos more frequently again.

@@BirdDogg I get that! And I absolutely hope you do!! You already have the hardest part beat! 18k followers, all you need is view time and your monitized!! That’s awesome man, you can do it! 😎👌🏼🤞🏼

@@JasonsMyOneLife ahh, the channel has been monetized for a long time, but that won’t hardly cover the bills and is sporadic at best. Best month was around $3k but it dropped off pretty fast. Averages maybe $100 a month

@@JasonsMyOneLife appreciate ya though!

Sure birddoggproductions@gmail. Com

@@BirdDogg ok sweet, I just sent you an email with a picture of it.

@@BirdDogg you get my email ?

@@jacksonwilhelm2420 busy busy day, just getting to it. To me it appears to be a late 1800’s blazer button, likely 1880’s-1890’s. If it were an early button the back would likely be brass as well instead of iron. Still a neat find that should display well

@@BirdDogg thanks I really appreciate your feedback. Do you think it is worth anything?

Official records and the federal government would disagree with you. A simple google search of Holt Collier historic marker will offer one such proof, I can offer several others from the official records of the civil war, period diaries and letters, but the one supported by the federal government will suffice for now as this video was simply to reinforce the fact that the civil war was significantly more nuanced than modern narratives would have you believe.

I reckon it depends on where you’re from.

Yes and no, he never even participated in klan activity, and Forrest was a civil rights activist

Who actually hates “black” people, especially Americans?!?!

You just copy pasting your racist rhetoric? Here’s a copy pasted reply….. wner, a business owner and a man who was respected by all in his community, even to the extent that he is still celebrated there for his kindness and generosity. Equality of white children 😂 cleary your comprehension of what warfare during the American civil war consisted of is limited to a pbs special. There was no safety on a civil war battlefield, and a drummer was just as likely to find himself in hand to hand combat as any other soldier, in fact musicians and flag bearers were specifically targeted. His community championed him and you think you are doing some sort of white knight service by bashing the fact that he overcame extreme adversity to become an admired member of his community. Not for his service to the confederate army, but for his service to that community. Maybe one day you will in fact reach equality with children and not feel the incessant urge to perpetually talk the documented achievements of others down in a futile effort to make yourself out to be enlightened. For someone so woke, you’re ass is asleep at the wheel, take it out of cruise control there pasty.

Excellent reply, Birddog, excellent . Well done !

@@BirdDogg lol...a lot of BS trying to oscure the fact I was right...and "no" little drummer boys, just like "cabin boys" in the navvy were not supposed to see combat or anything else the adult men did. As for facts, read the confederacy's own laws prohibiting free blacks from serving. All the rest I have not spoken too, except the fact that a grown man put into children's service sounds degrading to me. If you are so proud of that, why don't you go and try to enlist in the Cub scouts It sounds like emotionally and intellectually you will fit right in.

Besides, there is no evidence that he ever had any status other that 'servant" for his owner. look it up (of course that would take too much effort and refute the hooey) "The historical record is very clear as to Collier’s status in the Confederate army. Here is his pension application. You will notice that is specifically intended for former “servants.”"- you can see the documents on line and there is no mention of him being a "drummer" or anything else, except servent to his master Tom Hinds. Sounds like Collierr did some pretty cool stuff in his life, but serving in the confederate army was not one of them. Keep up the good lie.

@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz Quite literally laughable and easily disproveable through period documentation and modern historians alike. It's not my job to educate you, but since you are so woefully misinformed I will give you a small introduction to reality with some direct information from period source material and modern historians along with their citations, prepared to get REKT by an Eagle Scout. (Yeah, I was an Eagle Scout). SOURCE MATERIAL ---->: "In the South, the continuing depletion of men from an already smaller army necessitated that the musicians be consolidated into smaller units and be required to carry weapons.(Marshall M. Brice, Stonewall Brigade Band, pg 35.) "Many of these youngsters dropped their drum or fife and picked up the weapon of a fallen comrade in the heat of a battle. During later battles, generals often counted on the boys as much as the men, especially when troops were scarce."Young boys became immortalized in many stories and songs, as the Civil War became nicknamed "the drummer boy's war." ( (Charles W. Bardeen, A Little Fifer's War Diary, pg 86.) "In addition to the long hours of musical responsibilities, band members bore many other duties. When they were not directly involved in the fighting, and many were, they were invaluable in guarding equipment and prisoners. Many times they assisted in cooking, for both the troops and the wounded. They were also employed as physical laborerssetting up field hospitals, collecting wood, and digging trenches; most were assigned to the medical staff, either as an assistant, a stretcher-bearer, or an orderly. Usually the bandsmen were "entailed in the grim task of caring for the wounded." (Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: Serial 014 Page 0053 Chapter XXIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION) "Musicians enjoyed no more privileges than the common soldier. Initially, the rank of "musician" in Northern armies was comparable to that of private and was viewed negatively by many. In the South, musicians were generally assigned a somewhat more valuable status and were paid twelve dollars a month, one dollar more than a private." (Marshall M. Brice, The Stonewall Brigade Band (Verona, VA: McClure Printing, 1967), 27.) (Fun aside, black southern musicians made more than black soldiers in the union army.) Provide me one single reference with citation to dispute this.....