Milosia

He resigned from the United States Army and quickly accepted a commission in a rebel army based in Virginia.

Milosia

Before you start advising people to do more research maybe you should take heed yourself.

As you can see there were no free blacks who fought for the Confederacy.

Milosia

I never said secession was an act of treason.
The actions of Robert e lee were as documented in the attached files, Treasonous.

Milosia

***If you need more evidence of Lee’s personal feelings on enslavement, however, note that when his rebel forces marched into Pennsylvania, they kidnapped black people and sold them into bondage. Contemporaries referred to these kidnappings as “slave hunts.” **
Excerpt from above.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

That must make us umptent cousins! My Grandmother told us that she was the 8th cousin to Lee!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

That makes you guys related too~ cool!!👏🏻✨👏🏻

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Down south you know they’re all related.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

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Virginia Ordinance of Secession (April 17, 1861)

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The Virginia Ordinance of Secession, dated April 17, 1861, declares that the bond between Virginia and the United States of America, under the U.S. Constitution, is dissolved. Delegates at the Virginia Convention of 1861 voted 88–55 to approve the ordinance on April 17 and a statewide referendum confirmed secession on May 23.

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An Ordinance
To repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution.

The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention, on the twenty-fifth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under the said Constitution, were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression; and the Federal Government having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slaveholding States.

Now, therefore, we the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain,That the ordinance adopted by the people of this State in Convention, on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified; and all acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying or adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the Union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty, which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. And they do further declare,That said Constitution of the United States of America is no longer binding on any of the Citizens of this State.

This ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day when ratified by a majority of the votes of the people of this State, cast at a poll to be taken thereon, on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a Schedule hereafter to be enacted

Done in Convention in the City of Richmond, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the eighty-fifth year of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Virginia Convention of 1861

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Ordinance of Secession, 1861. Virginia. Convention (1861). Records, 1861–1961. Accession 40586. State Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

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First published: June 20, 2014 | Last modified: June 25, 2015

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Why try to change our history or remove it?
Solves nothing.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

What would’ve happened if Jefferson Davis had won ?
I think it means Slavery would’ve won.

I am not in favor of rewriting history or destroying artifacts from the past, but , I do think they should be in a place where you have the option of seeing them or not, as a museum.
To have an avowed traitor on a horse towering down on you is just plain ridiculous.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

There was no law expressly prohibiting it. If Virginia ratified a contract to be part of the United States then , in for a penny in for a pound. Then
If you should want to break that bond there were others ways of going about it.
As it happened a Declaration of War was issued.
I do understand what you are saying, it’s the reason Jefferson Davis was never brought to trial.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Who declared lee a non citizen? He may have considered himself a non citizen but he took an oath to defend the US CONSTITUTION in the U S Army.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Duh!

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

The Republic of Texas had it's share.
Texas had free-blacks before the Civil War

Kickaha Loc: Nebraska

There were free blacks throughout the South prior to the Civil War. Some were small time farmers, tradesmen and others were successful businessmen on a larger scale. Slavery would have ended on its own eventually as it was becoming less cost efficient as new inventions came along replacing manpower with machine power.