Texan John Bell Hood was not one to back down, on or off the battlefield.At the end of the Second Battle of Manassas 1862, Hood’s men captured some Union ambulances, and he allowed the men to keep them for the brigade’s personal use. General N. G. Evans ordered him to turn them over. But Hood
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Vandals covered a statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Middle Tennessee with pink paint, the second time in four months the monument had been targeted. The attack was part of a wave of vandalism against Confederate monuments across the country, and the statue had been a frequent target for years. The Forrest Statue Along
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Orlando’s “Johnny Reb” Confederate statue has a new home. After more than a century in downtown Lake Eola Park, the 106-year-old memorial was taken down in 2017 and moved to Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, where many of the city’s Confederate veterans are buried. Critics had pushed for its removal, while heritage supporters fought to keep
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There is a side of the Civil War that many don’t know about, or just ignore. It was not so unusual for troops from opposite sides to mingle, talk and share or trade items, and generally act friendly when not engaged in fighting each other. Here is a portion of a letter sent from a
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Some may wonder why the South remembers the Civil War as it does. After all, the losses were horrific to both North and South. Most of the war was fought on Southern soil. Small towns and countryside were trampled, occupied and battered for years. Major urban centers were ripped to pieces. The burning of Atlanta
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A biographer has called him the “Tejano Tiger.” His name is Col. Santos Benavides. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the Confederacy. Over 10,000 Tejanos, the Mexican-American inhabitants of southern Texas, fought in the Civil War in South Texas in over 100 significant battles. Here is his inspirational story. Before serving with the Confederacy, Benavides
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Union General William T. Sherman called them “the most dangerous set of men which the war turned loose upon the world.” The cowboys of of the 8th Texas Cavalry were known as Terry’s Texas Rangers, reckless men who didn’t much like discipline. A Confederate colonel once recommended that the commander of a Union regiment surrender
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How many states were in the Confederacy? Ask three people and you may hear three answers: seven, eleven or thirteen. All three are right, depending on when you are counting and how you count. The stars on Confederate flags tell the story. The states of the Confederacy. The First Seven States The Confederate Battle Flag
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“Wheat’s Tigers” was the nickname of a Louisiana Battalion formed from the rougher sections of New Orleans, men described as “thieves, and outcasts…and bad characters generally.” Of all the units that took the field at the First Battle of Manassas in July 1861, none exceeded the flair and intensity of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion.
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During the Civil War, the Cherokee Nation had 3,000 men serving as Confederate soldiers. The Cherokee, by nature a peaceful people, were exceptionally skilled at protecting themselves. They were naturals at close-quarters fighting, and adept at the irregular tactics of guerrilla warfare. A leader of the Cherokee, Stand Watie, was eager to join the Confederate
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