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• Union and Confederate troops fought at Calico Ghost Town this weekend, meeting two times a day to exchange gun and cannon fire during Civil War Days. The annual Presidents’ Day weekend event is put on by the American Civil War Society, a Southern California-based Civil War re-enactment group. The event has been held...
A monument to commemorate the sacrifice of Confederate soldiers who “gave their all to liberate our beloved Texas and southland” 150 years ago in the Civil War has been erected in the western-most portion of Socorro’s cemetery. The marker, and the establishment here in Socorro of New Mexico‘s only Confederate Memorial Cemetery, is...
A north Phoenix business owner has removed a Confederate flag after The Arizona Republic stopped by to inquire about the controversial flag. The flag of the Southern Confederacy has been divisive since the Civil War ended. For some, it is a symbol of slavery and racism. For others, it honors the Southern heritage and states’ rights....
At the end of the American Civil War radical members of Congress attempted to destroy the white power structure of the Rebel states. The Freeman’s Bureauwas established by Congress on 3rd March, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and...
lso known as “The Birth of a Nation; or the Clansman“. Controversially racist D.W. Griffith film depicting the lives of two families, one Northern and one Southern, from before the Civil War and into Reconstruction. The families’ servants epitomize the worst racial stereotypes and as the nation is ravaged by war, the slaves and...
“I was the guy you see in the movies who got out of the car, went up to the house and rang the doorbell to – you know,” the former Army captain recalled solemnly in a 1993 Tulsa World story. Over his career, Stewart, a member of the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corp., would...
If you’ve read this here weekly piece over the years, you probably know ’90s country is firmly situated in the softest spot of my heart — for all its good, bad, and ugly. I saw ’90s country hit-makers Confederate Railroad at South Dakota‘s Brown County Fair the summer of 1993; our grandstand buttons also...
Gainesville — Cooke and Denton counties members of the Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), plus members of the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), honored the state holiday, which launched in 1973, conjunctive with the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The memorial morning included a presentation of flag colors and paid...
The America founded by George Washington and his allies was consigned to history by the winners of the Civil War, the keynote speaker at a Confederate Heroes Day service said Wednesday. “It’s Abraham Lincoln who is the father of what we currently call the United States,” Tom Clinkscale, commander of the North East Texas...
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during most of the Civil War and his brilliant battlefield leadership earned him a reputation as one of the greatest military leaders in history as he consistently defeated larger Union armies. Share on Facebook
