Honoring the Confederate African American

During the War Between The States, the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in Autumn of 1861, "There are at the present moment many Colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down any loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the rebels."

In celebration of the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States and Black History Month, the Roswell Mills Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans welcomes the public to hear author, educator and historian Charles Kelly Barrow, B.S., M.A., Ed.S., present a lecture titled "The African-American Confederate Soldier".

This lecture will be at 7PM on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at the Harp Irish Pub in Roswell, Georgia.  There is no charge.

Mr. Barrow is author and editor of  Black Southerners in Confederate Armies: A Collection of Historical Accounts   and  Black Confederates , both by Pelican Publishing, along with numerous other articles and pamphlets on Southern History.

Mr. Barrow serves as the Lieutenant Commander-in-Chief of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans organization. In addition to the SCV, Mr. Barrow is the youngest commissioner ever appointed to the Georgia Civil War Commission and is currently its  Treasurer. He holds numerous other memberships in historical organizations and trusts.