Sentences with phrase «confederate army generals»
While Cuomo has stood up for keeping the statue of Columbus on 59th Street in place, he has asked the U.S. Army to rename two streets on a Brooklyn military base currently honoring two to Confederate Army generals.
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The U.S. Army, though, shouldn't have turned Confederate generals into «role models.»
Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals?
Why, the NCEF (or in any case its media confederates) even flaunted its «Christian» retired army generals, to underscore its «warning»!
Cuomo, who has called for the re-naming of streets that are part of an Army base in New York City named for Confederate generals, said Columbus has a different meaning for Italian - Americans.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged in a letter to the acting secretary of the Army to renamed two streets in Brooklyn that bare the names of Confederate - era generals.
Meanwhile, also on Tuesday, Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Brooklyn Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez held a rally with community leaders urging the Department of the Army to rename two streets — General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive — at Fort Hamilton that are currently named for confederate generals.
Tired of moonlighting, Lincoln retires his ax - cum - blunderbuss and, as fallback career, becomes president until war breaks out and his generals report that the Confederate army is infiltrated by phantoms with fangs.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg, believing that his own General Meade could have crippled the Confederate army by pursuing Lee's vanquished troops, Lincoln composed a heated letter to Meade:
Carrie's home - the Carnton plantation - was taken over by the Confederate army and turned into a hospital; four generals lay dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rose as tall as the smoke house.
Giving you the chance to be the General of either the Union or Confederate army in the battle of Gettysburg, it allows you to recreate the historical facts or try out many speculative scenarios.
Upstairs McArthur has more brown billboards, while photographs by An - My Lê present Louisiana as contested territory — flooded by storms, bearing a monument to a Confederate general, and serving as the set for a film about a Confederate Army deserter.
Two photographs from her latest series, The Silent General, which examines the legacy of the Confederate Army, were included in this year's Whitney Biennial, and the museum will also exhibit her work in an upcoming exhibition called On Limits opening May 24.
It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley (US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D.C.).
The young general was put in charge of the Michigan Cavalry and tasked with keeping Confederate general Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union Army's rear.