Women fighting on the Confederate front line in the Civil War? Yes! Women weren’t legally allowed to fight, but an estimated 400 to 750 women from the North and South disguised themselves as men and fought on the battlefields without anyone ever discovering their true identities. The Confederacy had no age requirement for joining up. If […]
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Acclaimed artist Bruce K. Lawes works with Ultimate Flags to create an original historical work, ‘The Rise of Jesse James’. For collectors of original paintings, this masterwork will be appearing at the Coeur d’Alene fine art auction on July 29th. To see auction website click on the link: http://www.cdaartauction.com/2017/lot/19180?order=lot Jesse James fought as a Confederate
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The battle over the Confederate statue is underway and it is taking place at the Hamilton Co. Courthouse. County commissioner have told people that the statue in front of the courthouse will not be removed. The reason some people want it to be removed is because they feel intimidated by it as they come into
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The Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery. The removal of all things associated with the Confederacy should be accompanied by the removal of all things associated with Northern slavery. Advocates of the removal of Confederate Statues should consider that removing all artifacts that are linked to slavery might result in the removal of
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Campers at a Rhode Island campground were concerned when they noticed a Confederate flag displayed on an RV parked in the camp. Many of the campers asked to have the flag removed, but according to a lawyer, the flag is protected by the Constitution as free speech, and can only be taken down if the
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What can you say about the Irish born Confederate soldier Henry Kyd Douglas? General Robert E. Lee gave him compliments, Stonewall Jackson relied on his close service, women of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were enchanted by his flair, drama, and good looks. Even the enemy Federal soldiers held an admiration for him. Varina Davis,
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Members of the South Carolina Secessionist Party held a rally at the capitol on Monday, July 10th, where they raised the Confederate flag on a temporary flag pole. Supporters reiterated their intent to hoist the flag each year on the anniversary of the flag’s removal from the capitol grounds. About 50 people attended in support
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In March of 1865, a Jewish Confederate Captain Samuel Yates Levy wrote his father from a Union prisoner of war camp, “I long to breathe the free air of Dixie.” Many Jewish Southerners rallied to their states and sacrificed their lives in battle. It was probably the largest ethnic group to serve the Confederacy, made
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Activists in New Orleans are outraged over the city council’s decision to remove Confederate statues. A resident named Richard Marksbury has filed a lawsuit in hopes that one of the statues will remain. At one demonstration, over 700 people (many of them waving Confederate flags) showed their support for keeping the monuments in place. The
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Nowhere in any other battle area of the Civil War was the fight between the just and unjust, between liberty and tyranny more clearly shown than in Missouri. Toughened by a rough-hewed frontier heritage, Missourians entered the war with a determined willingness to fight. General Van Dorn wrote to Jefferson Davis about the Missourians: “During
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