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07/12/11 PARSONS, W.Va. -- Named commander of the Confederate Army of the Northwest a few days after the Southern defeat at the Battle of Philippi, Gen. Robert S. Garnett wasted no time fortifying key passes along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike and the Bev...
06/25/11 War is never easy, but residents of this busy river town perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River were especially miserable when, on July 4, 1863, the 47-day siege ordered by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ended with the Confederate Army's surrender.
05/28/11 VICKSBURG, Miss. -- War is never easy, but residents of this busy river town perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River were especially miserable when on July 4, 1863, the 47-day siege ordered by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ended with the Confederate Army's surrender.
04/24/11 More than 40 years after the American Civil War had come to an end, Robert J. Rhodes, of Whiteville, Tenn., returned to Florence to see the house where he had bled, wounded in battle with his Confederate Army comrades.
04/23/11 When members of the Confederate Army declared "the South will rise again," they weren't talking about New York Fashion Week. In February, a gaggle of celebrities and fashion icons filled Lincoln Center to view Chris...
04/22/11 When members of the Confederate Army declared "the South will rise again," they weren't talking about New York Fashion Week. Yet this February, a gaggle of celebrities and fashion icons filled Lincoln Center to view Chris Benz's new Savannah (Ga.)-inspired collection.
04/19/11 Felix Miller, my triple great-grandfather, wrote to his wife, Elizabeth, from a Confederate Army camp in northern Virginia to please send him some potato pies.
04/12/11 Today is the 150th anniversary of the Confederate Army attack on Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C., and the beginning of the American Civil War. The war lasted from 1861 to 1865 and claimed more than 650,000 lives, devastated the southern economy and culture, and pitted countrymen against each other in a struggle over national identity and slavery.
04/09/11 On June 15, 1863, the first portions of General Robert E. Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were crossing the Potomac River near Hagerstown, Md.
03/20/11 With the roll of a snare drum to keep them in step, 75 new "recruits" to the Confederate Army on Sunday kicked off one of North Carolina's first commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
02/26/11 Margaret Pryor would have none of it. She knew what was in Confederate Army Maj. Barak Thomas'
11/24/10 It was a very long wait, but local pioneer James Ellison England finally will be recognized for his service with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
11/17/10 The tall oaks and dogwoods that define expansive property of Alabama's Lakewood Golf Club are metaphorically draped in a history of the region, from the site's nod to Confederate Army dead, to the design of one of its courses by the venerable Perry Maxwell, and to the resort and hotel from which the demand for the facility was initially born.
10/17/10 The history of one Upshur County Confederate Army company in the Civil War was described for Gilmer Rotarians Tuesday by Bill Starnes, who is a student of this period and a past commander of the Upshur County Patriots, the area Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter.
01/30/10 For more than a half a century, he lived in Ca?on City. Prior to that, William Tecumpseh Bridwell served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
01/11/10 The freezing temperatures Saturday morning didn't stop members of the Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Church and area camps of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from gathering to honor the 39 Confederate Army dead who are buried in the church cemetery.
10/15/09 A posthumous pardon was given to Tom Joyners' great-uncles Thomas and Meeks Griffin, who were wrongly sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.
10/15/09 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina.
10/14/09 Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina.
10/14/09 South Carolina pardoned syndicated radio host Tom Joyner's great-uncles Wednesday, nearly a century after they were sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran. Officials believe the two men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case. Black landowners Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed 94 years ago after a jury convicted ...
10/14/09 A South Carolina board has unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner who were executed for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran. |