And Alexander Stevens, one of the biggest moderates in the Confederate Government and believer in the right that States could be non-slave, denied what he is supposed to have said in the famous "Cornerstone Speech". There is only one source to that speech, a reporter, and Stevens later said he was grossly misquoted.

The often used quote from an unknown Confederate at Fort Wagner about Colonel Shaw and where he was buried... had for its source nearly a decade later... a black political group. None of who were there.

David Upton