Robert E. Lee's Orderly: A Modern Black Man's Confederate Journey
258Robert E. Lee's Orderly: A Modern Black Man's Confederate Journey
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Al Arnold is a descendent of a slave, Turner Hall, Jr. “Uncle Turner,” as he was known in his later years, served in the Confederate army as a body servant for two Confederate soldiers and an orderly for Robert
E. Lee. As a slave, Turner Hall, Jr. was owned by another prominent Civil War general, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Al began researching his ancestor’s life in 2008. At a family reunion, he saw a newspaper caption indicating his ancestor, Turner Hall, Jr. served Robert
E. Lee as an orderly in the Civil War. To Al’s amaze- ment, his research found a proud Black Confederate who held both Civil War generals in high esteem, even well after the war. At the age of ninety-five, Turner Hall, Jr. cherished a gift from Nathan Bedford Forrest as one of his most treasured possessions.
Al was further intrigued that his great-great- grandfather was a celebrated man in his community of Hugo, Oklahoma. Blacks and Whites commemorated him as Hugo’s “most distinguished citizen” as a result of his Civil War service. Turner Hall, Jr. lived to be a hundred and four years old. He attended the last Civil War reunion in 1938 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Newsreel cameramen captured him displaying his reunion medals as an example of the typical Black Confederate.
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In 1940, he was interviewed as a Black Con- federate by a nationwide talk radio show in New York City. Turner Hall, Jr. left a trail for his family that Al has uncovered. Al shares his personal journey into his Confederate heritage as a modern Black man. He makes a connection through the life of his ancestor and embraces the premises that history should unite us instead of divide us. He argues that African Americans dishonor their ancestors by attempting to destroy Confederate heritage and by neglecting the historical impact that slaves had on both sides of the Civil War. These are the honest thoughts of a modern Black man who has wrestled with his Confederate heritage while being a Black Christian man in America and who is connected to two famous Civil War generals.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780692162576 |
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Publisher: | Orderlyforlee |
Publication date: | 01/15/2017 |
Edition description: | Extended ed. |
Pages: | 258 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d) |
About the Author
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,[1] after the intervention of the federal government, an event that was a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword i
About the Book viii
Dedication x
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xxii
Growing Up Southern 1
The War that Made a New People 22
My Beloved Mississippi & The Confederate Flag 33
Culture is Not Racism: Martin’s Dream 38
Make a Monument 53
Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Good, Bad & the Ugly 63
The Mystical Black Confederate 84
Pappa Turner 104
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? 152
History Lessons in Black and White 169
About the Author: Al Arnold 196
A Black and White letter to the Church 202
The Southern Inheritance: The South Has Risen! 218