Hi, Great Grandad George Milton Moxley, Irish, needed money and took a rich man's place in the Confederate draft. He was with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. He died about the time I started to school. He said they had horses, as Cavalry, but ate some of them and walked home to Illinois or Mo. Thought he was in Missouri, he came from Missouri to Texas where a Gov. Augustus King was once Governor- one of Gov. Sevier's descendants who came to Stephenville, Texas on a diffrent road and train than the Wylys, Kays, and Rampleys. King Abstract still operates on the Stephenville Courthouse square. Great Grandad Moxley said the man marching home in front of him shot a wild goat . They hung it in a tree and dressed it. Gen. Forrest's officers confiscated it, leaving them none. It was my understanding that both free and slave Blacks fought for the Confederacy in the ranks of an integrated army and drew full pay and usually freedom. . One unit of New Orleans Blacks volunteered for the Confederacy. A high ranking officer objected, so they went north and joined the Union Army, which sent them white officers, just like World War I and II. the Buffalo Union Soldiers(a name given them by western Indians as a show of respect as the buffalo was sacred to them) were paid 2/3 of the pay of white soldiers until past 1890. In WW 1 and 2, many of their officers were Texas Czech and other immigrant farmers, like Adolph Sulak of West, Texas, then , in WW2, they sometimes fought in Us. uniforms and weapons with the French flag. I was in one of the first fully integrated units in Korean War time- the 15 th Heavy Calvary Group, Fort Polk, La. with the Black 701st of 17 th Calvary group across the road. Our barracks at Camp Polk and Fort Hood was integrated. If I am not mistaken the Reservists in the 701st were heroes in the 751st Heavy Tank Batallion in Ww ii and the entrance street to Fort Hood from old Killeen is named after them. The M.P.s in Camp Polk were fully integrated during the Korean War. According to a teacher of History in Hill College Hillsboro, Texas, the records there in the Audie Murphy Gun Museum and Col. Harold Simpson Confederate Research center show that ships owned from a Kennedy or Fitzgerald kin from Boston - One of Pres. John Kennedy's ancestors was running the slave blockade during the war and some of their ships were so dirty they burned them after the second trip. The Free Black who sold them at the auction block in New Orleans was a 6 foot plus heavy Black ancestor of Dr. Martin Luther King. I have not seen these records they claim to have. Hillsboro claims to be the home of Hood's Texas Brigade. Is this an Urban legend? If you go to Hillsboro on I-35 they have a large outlet mall 2 block from the College. Last month we had the National Liberian Boy's choir in our church in Hewitt(Waco), Texas. Last year it was the National Zambian Boy's Choir. (I think) . Some Sevier kin in East Tennessee did not find slavery profitable nor humane. They sent them back to Liberia and gave them freedom, about the 1840's or so, not knowing where in Africa they came from nor who would accept them Not all tribes in Liberia accepted those returning slaves who could read and write and led in organizing the paper State of Liberia- some were historic enemies. The choir at church had 11 or 12 young men- 7 were blinded by torture in the last 5 years when their parents were slaughterred by descendants of true native tribes. 51% of the children there today do not have living parents. The rebels went in to the Capitol and killed the President, the Congress and most of the judges within recent years. Our news media ignored it. There are not enough schools. European and American churches are now sending support. These students spend the first year in a grass tabernacle and live in a dormitory. by the second year they have one enclosed mud classroom, then they go into more devastated areas and build a 1 room school there during the summer. English is the national language, but no one speaks it. Our church served them the first Ice Cream- Coke float they ever tasted. 1 refused it. If this is true as their guide reported, what in the world were we doing in Somalia and Southeast Asia and Bosnia-again? We are partially responsible for Liberia as a nation- it was our plan. Some Sevier connected families in East Tennessee had letters for the next 10 years begging to come back under a 10 or 20 year labor contract- they said the natives there called them Americans. and were hostile- others returned and tried to start their own american style farms with local slave labor. just has hapenned in Africa for centuries. Do we learn from history, or just keeping whitewashing it with our favorite paint?? Greart Great Great Grandmother Sarah Hawkins Clark Wyly attended an integrated Missionary Baptist Church in the Toccoa- Clarkesville, Ga. area Her grandfather in law Col. Ben Cleveland's servandt Toby became a minister and land speculator and organized Ga & Carolina Churches after Col. Ben's will freed him and gave him money and property. Some members on the roll were slaves and some were not- about 1830's . She claimed to have lived with her grandad John Sevier after her mom Elizabeth died and she was 7. Her stories were being told for the second and third time in Erath County, Texas.by children and grandchildren she lived with while managing Clark land. They were backed up in 1917 by Ben Franklin Wyly, her son and Florence Underwood Eastman and sent to L.D. Wyly Sr., Seneca, S.C. and to me by L.D. Jr of Atlanta, Ga. Will close and quit boring you. Charles Wyly