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Furthermore, the Confederate Battle Flag was the standard of the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee, a General who claimed to loath slavery, but hypocritically allowed the enslavement of free blacks in his mlitary operations:
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Furthermore, the Confederate Battle Flag was the standard of the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee, a General who claimed to loath slavery, but hypocritically allowed the enslavement of free blacks in his military operations:
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When Albert Jenkins\' rough-hewn cavalrymen made their initial foray into the Cumberland Valley in mid-June, \
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When Albert Jenkins\\\' rough-hewn cavalrymen made their initial foray into the Cumberland Valley in mid-June, \\\"they took up all [the people of color] they could find, even little children, who they had to carry on horseback before them\\\" to be claimed or sold in the slave markets in Richmond.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, p 73, Allen Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College

Cavalry units of the Army of Northern Virginia also kidnapped blacks, both slave and free, during the Pennsylvania campaign in June of 1863.
Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America 1780-1865, p 15, Carol Wilson, Professor of History at Washington College

All the more reason to consign that symbol of tyranny to a museum.
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Furthermore, the Confederate Battle Flag was the standard of the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee, a General who claimed to loath slavery, but hypocritically allowed the enslavement of free blacks in his mlitary operations:
Lee\\\'s army also had a policy of seizing and carrying off into slavery in the South every black person it encountered - man, woman, or child, escaped slave or freeborn citizen of Pennsylvania.
This Great Struggle: America\\\'s Civil War, p 214 - Steven Woodworth, professor of history at Texas Christian University

When Albert Jenkins\\\' rough-hewn cavalrymen made their initial foray into the Cumberland Valley in mid-June, \\\"they took up all [the people of color] they could find, even little children, who they had to carry on horseback before them\\\" to be claimed or sold in the slave markets in Richmond.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, p 73, Allen Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College

Cavalry units of the Army of Northern Virginia also kidnapped blacks, both slave and free, during the Pennsylvania campaign in June of 1863.
Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America 1780-1865, p 15, Carol Wilson, Professor of History at Washington College

All the more reason to consign that symbol of tyranny to a museum.
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