Robert E. Lee's Orderly - Arnold, Al

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Résumé :
New Chapters: History Lessons In Black & White The Mystical Black Confederates Meaningful Contact A Black & White Letter to the Church 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&rsquo...

Biographie:
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&rsquo...

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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&rsquo...