Virginia - But Why?
So the latest state to distort history (after the fine job Texas is doing) is Virginia. They had a person (I hesitate to say writer) who is not a historian write their Virginia history book. She said she found information about black Confederate soldiers on the Internet. Seriously.
From the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog:
What she found was the work of members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That’s a group of male descendants of Confederate soldiers, based in Tennessee, that has long claimed that big numbers of black soldiers fought for the South. Professional historians of the era say this is nonsense.
The author, Joy Masoff, has penned other works including "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty"
From the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog:
What she found was the work of members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That’s a group of male descendants of Confederate soldiers, based in Tennessee, that has long claimed that big numbers of black soldiers fought for the South. Professional historians of the era say this is nonsense.
The author, Joy Masoff, has penned other works including "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty"
