Welcome to the companion site for the book Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth. Here you can further explore many of the primary sources featured in the book as well as a wide range of additional resources.
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Impressed Slaves on James Island, South Carolina
Depiction of enslaved people working on Confederate defenses on James Island, near Charleston, South Carolina in 1863
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Shadrick Searcy Headstone
Photograph of two headstones for former camp slave, Shadrick Searcy
This is an excellent example of how the Sons of Confederate Veterans have…
Grim Harvest of War
Civil War artists capitalized on the popularity of the black Confederate myth. In the Grim Harvest of War, Bradley Schmehl features a “black…
"General Lee's Socks"
The use of Robert E. Lee and his camp slave to sell washing machines in the early twentieth century points to the popularity of the Lost Cause and the…
Black Confederates Out of the Attic and Into the Mainstream
Journal article on the myth of the black Confederate soldier
Confederate Like Me
Article about the history of Confederate camp slaves and the myth of the black Confederate soldier.