tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217213397958297920.post2022669812883756980..comments2024-03-15T16:18:49.433-04:00Comments on Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff: RIP Kenny Baker (1934 - 2016)C.W. Rodenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720242706965307970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217213397958297920.post-65821030189747655132016-08-27T10:11:38.862-04:002016-08-27T10:11:38.862-04:00Just a quick WBTS update for you C.W.
101 year o...Just a quick WBTS update for you C.W. <br /><br />101 year old Confederate black man Earl Jerdon attended the Tulsa UCV reunion in 1918. His words:<br /><br />“Well this is how it was. General Nathan Bedford Forrest sent out a call for 15,000 Negro soldiers. The doctor came to me and asked me if I wanted to go. I said sure, and enlisted that day. No, he didn't say that I had to go. He treated all of us fine. I started training under General Beauregard and before I had been training four days I was made a member of the General's bodyguard. I went through the whole war and never received a scratch.”<br />"Were you a servant?", he was asked. <br />"Yeh, I served with a gun and two pistols," <br />--Confederate black soldier Earl Jerdon<br />http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/…/…/1918-09-28/ed-1/seq-1/<br />Steve Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966177363147209946noreply@blogger.com