Mississippi mayor says a Confederate monument is staying in storage during a lawsuit
A Confederate monument that was removed from a courthouse square in Mississippi will stay in storage while a lawsuit over its ...
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Texas was fascinated with its Civil War veterans. The last one died here at 117.
He began serving in the Confederate army on July 1, 1864 ... would not admit him to a VA hospital because he was not a United States veteran. The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Gov.
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Throwback Thursday: Union vs. Confederate, two Hart County Generals
In 1823, two boys were born in Munfordville, about 40 miles north of Bowling Green in Hart County. The boys would grow up ...
The New York Times20d
Arthur J. Gregg, His Name Replacing Lee’s on a Virginia Fort, Dies at 96
The first Black Army officer elevated to lieutenant general, he lived to see a military post named for a slaveholding Confederate general ... arms against the United States, the commission noted.
The Conversation22d
Conscription laws passed during the US civil war offered exemptions – are there lessons for Ukraine today?
The Confederate states during the US civil war (1861-65 ... did indeed flee the plantations and join the Union army. In Ukraine, the issue of exemptions, or bias, has been less overt but ...
The Washington Post24d
Arthur Gregg, Army trailblazer and Fort Gregg-Adams namesake, dies at 96
In 2021, Congress established a panel to rename Army installations that had previously recognized Confederate leaders ... but quickly found that the United States had “two armies, one Black ...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pauses Lake Lanier and Buford Dam renaming actions
"Lake Lanier is named after the poet, Sidney Lanier. Lanier served in the Confederate States Army as a private." The report mentioned two other civil works projects from the U.S. Army Corps of ...
The Progress-Index28d
Arthur Gregg, for whom Fort Lee's name was changed, dies at 96
Three of them were in Virginia – Lee, named for Confederate commanding general Robert E ... We are troubled by anyone deserting the United States Army and going to the other side and fighting against ...
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General officers in the Confederate States Army
Initially, the Confederate States Army commissioned only brigadier generals in both the volunteer and regular services; [2] however, the Congress quickly passed legislation allowing for the ...