Sentences with phrase «army during the civil war»

Both were health care giants with proud histories — Squibb had supplied medications to the Union Army during the Civil War and marketed the first electric toothbrush; Bristol - Myers provided penicillin to U.S. forces during World War II and briefly ran Palomar Pictures, the studio responsible for The Stepford Wives.

The first person you should be aware of is the legendary financier Jay Cooke, a treasury bond salesman whose efforts helped fund the Union army during the civil war.

All pretense to the concept of armed citizenry as a defense against a standing army was obliterated by the Union Army during the civil war.

The prestige player is based on the true story of Newton Knight, a Mississippian who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and led a band of former Confederates who took control of a number of southern Mississippi counties.

The first man is the clever and cruel Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a bounty hunter we learn fought in the union army during the Civil War and the closest thing the film has to a lead character.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.

In «Father Abe,» a short story in Five - Carat Soul, McBride mentions two all - black regiments that fought for the Union army during the Civil War — the 32nd United States Colored Infantry and the 9th Louisiana Colored Infantry.

She enjoys the freedom so much that she continues to masquerade as a male, even fighting for the Union army during the Civil War.

Not exact matches

Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies against each other during the American Civil War, but they weren't always enemies.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times during the Syrian civil war, hitting convoys and bases of Iranian - backed militias that fight alongside Assad's forces.

During the American civil war she walked into the army camps of both sides to denounce the abuse of black girls as «camp followers».

During the following Spanish Civil War, Catalonia became the center of Socialist thought and Barcelona became the capitol of the Spanish Republican (People's) Army that opposed Franco's Spanish Nationalist Army.

She was an American abolitionist who treated the Union Army as a surgeon during the Civil War.

Clearly he was an early and avid supporter of Barack Obama, but interspersing the 2008 presidential election with in - depth studies of Montgomery Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War, leaves the reader perplexed and thirsting for more, which is not provided.

In a sheer reaction to the arrest of suspected killer of an Army Commander during Nigeria's Civil War, Gen Mohammed Shuwa, Borno Elders Forum (BEF) has reacted to the development in reminiscent saying his demise remains a great loss to them.

The video is a rap - spoof of a media interview with «General Baxter, representing AFRICOM», probably a play on the American Union Army General Henry Baxter (1821 — 1873) who fought during the American Civil War.

Schumer quoted at length from a letter Union Army officer Sullivan Ballou penned to his wife during the Civil War, a week before his death at Bull Run.

Liberia's police and army are overseeing election security for the first time since the civil war following a handover from UN peacekeepers last year, and though underfunded have kept the peace during the campaign.

Newspapers were filled with stories and maps and casualty lists; people who had been children during the Civil War recalled years later that they had eagerly followed the progress of «their» armies — in which fathers or older brothers often marched — through their local papers.

It has a history of caring for U.S. servicemen — sailors from the New Haven seaport sought care at the hospital during its early days, and during the Civil War, more than 25,000 U.S. Army soldiers were cared for at the hospital.

The Union Army or Federal Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War, 1861 to 1865.

Grant has been widely recognised as a superior military tactician for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War under the supervision of President Abraham Lincoln, winning key battles at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

8:00 pm — TCM — Glory Matthew Broderick commands an all - black unit of the Union army during the American Civil War.

It's too late to fix the Free State of Jones, director - writer Gary Ross» well - meaning historical drama about the curious case of Newton Knight, an army deserter who inspired a mixed race coalition of Mississippi farmers and runaway slaves to revolt against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Set in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the film stars Zhang Hanyu as Yang, a courageous People's Liberation Army reconnaissance officer who discovers a thousand - strong horde of bandits in a seemingly impenetrable mountain stronghold, and goes undercover to see if he can bring them down from within — or at least keep them from slaughtering his tiny band of 30 soldiers.

7 — 12): John, a boy from rural southern Sudan, and Martha, from the city of Juba, both become separated from their families and are forced to flee from armies during the Sudan Civil War of 1983 — 2005.

It was colonized in the early 19th century and played an important role during the American Civil War as a headquarters and supply point for the Confederate army.

It served as the Confederate States Army headquarters during the American Civil War and is now home to more than than 217,000 residents and part of a metropolitan area with more than 1.2 million.

Over the next several decades, Alcatraz served the U.S. Army well, both as a strategic location protecting the hugely valuable California gold fields, and as a prison site for military offenders during the Civil War and Spanish - American War.

That is me, named after my grandfather Henry Kevlin SHORT HISTORY OF THE FAMILY General Sterling Price was a general in General Lee's army of the South during the U.S. Civil War.

He served the Union army as a civilian surgeon during the American Civil War.

Due to its strategic location, both the Confederate Army and later on, the Union Army established Knoxville as a headquarters for operations during the Civil War.

It was colonized in the early 19th century and played an important role during the American Civil War as a headquarters and supply point for the Confederate army.

It served as the Confederate States Army headquarters during the American Civil War and is now home to more than than 217,000 residents and part of a metropolitan area with more than 1.2 million.

Cold Spring Park has a long history in Milwaukee, as it was home to a few U.S. Army divisions during the Civil War.