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Like the Union Army the Confederate Navy also had African enlisted personnel
posted by EugeneBelangerSTAFFMOD on January 3, 2020 at 9:15 AM
I saw this film starring Mathew Broderick years back and it got me interested in black military personnel in the Civil War. I found the Confederate side of the war to be far more interesting than the Union to read about. There was, it turns out, a popular black ship pilot in the Confederate Navy by the neat name of Moses Dallas. I saw records of him on webpages. But these records were written after the war. The other night I subscribed to newspapers.com to look at old newspapers for genealogy purposes. Although Mr. Dallas was certainly no relation to me I looked up his name in old newspapers from the south in the early 1860s and saw his name in an 1864 Alexandria, Virginia newspaper! It mentioned him being killed along with a lieutenant. Both were on a ship just a couple of days earlier. Moses Dallas did exist and he was black and in the Confederate Navy ( not Army so forget talk that no black men were in the Confederate Army till the final days if the war-- they were the South's Navy all along!).
Reply by genplant29
on January 3, 2020 at 6:40 PM
Hi, Eugene - and welcome to TMDb! That's an excellent post you made.
I don't personally know anything about the type military cases you've mentioned (and at this late date am unable to remember anything about the movie Glory, as it was circa 1990 when I watched it), but have for many years (since around age 15) been in to genealogy, so find what you wrote to be very interesting.
My own family members (only my paternal side was yet in America by the Civil War era) of the 19th century fought for the Union side. I completely agree with you though, that somehow Confederate side stories always seem the most interesting.
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 3, 2020 at 10:30 PM
Yeah.Hey thanks for the welcome. Blue uniforms are much duller. : ) Many others reasons why the Union seems duller. Newspapers.com is offering a free seven day trial period. That is what is I am doing on there for three more days. I got roots in the north of the US in the 1850s myself. But the Confederacy is more interesting!
Reply by genplant29
on January 4, 2020 at 1:14 AM
My brother (technically is my cousin - but we're siblings as far as we're concerned) has for years maintained a Newspapers.com subscription and finds great stuff via it all the time. It's incredible the scope of buried information that can be found in old newspapers, that frequently include stories and historical facts that everyone today has forgotten about otherwise.
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 4, 2020 at 2:12 AM
Oh okay. You are familiar with it then.
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 6, 2020 at 10:51 AM
I have subscribed at various times to both Genealogybank .com and newspapers.com and found the former most likely containing more old newspapers than the latter. ( There may be times the reverse was the case and Newspapers has old periodicals that Genealogybank does not but most likely it's the other way around!)
Reply by genplant29
on January 6, 2020 at 1:29 PM
I haven't been subscribed to any pay genealogy or history (including obituary) sites in a few years, though at some point no doubt will again.
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 7, 2020 at 10:16 AM
Newspapers.com has old Canadian newspapers and I do not recall Genealogybank having those.
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 8, 2020 at 4:38 PM
I saw there were also African-descended Confederate Marines. Read about men such as Charles Cheaper at earlycountynews.com/articles/tuckers-confederate-marine-brigade/
Reply by EugeneBelanger
on January 16, 2020 at 10:20 PM
Myheritage.com is another good service for (among other stuff) old newspapers. Two-week free trial period there!