Sentences with phrase «confederate battle»

«I opened the lockbox and the key was (stamped with) a Confederate battle flag.

The Confederate battle flag has been brought under new scrutiny after a racially motivated shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina church last...

They acknowledged that many students had been suspended for up to five days for taking part in protests supporting displays of the red, white, and blue Confederate battle flag.

A black family moves adjacent to the Lodge's, causing immediate upheaval — protests rage all day and all night, vandalism occurs, a confederate battle flag is draped across the family's window sash.

Rev. Nelson Rivers III of Charity Missionary Baptist Church, on the political movement to take down the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse in response to the shooting at Emanuel AME Church last week

And New York voters have widespread negative attitudes toward the Confederate battle flag, which was recently taken down from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.

New Yorkers also widely disapprove of the Confederate battle flag: 59 percent of voters say it represents racial intolerance as opposed to 27 percent who believe it represents Southern pride.

The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

«Mr. Speaker, if this Confederate battle flag prevailed in war 150 years ago I would not be standing here as a member of the United States Congress, I would be here as a slave,» Jeffries said in an impassioned floor speech.

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

The «lost cause,» the Confederate battle flag, and other Confederate ideas and symbols were adopted as tokens of white supremacy during the desegregation era.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

WHEREAS, We recognize that the Confederate battle flag is used by some and perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry, and racism, offending millions of people; and

«We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African - American brothers and sisters,» states Resolution 7, passed today by an overwhelming majority of messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

Earlier today, the University of Mississippi removed the Mississippi state flag from its campus because of the banner's Confederate battle emblem.

Leaders at the cathedral have announced plans to remove images of Confederate battle flags shown in large stained glass displays that honor Civil War generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, both of whom led Confederate forces.

With full respect of the autonomy of the local church, we call brothers and sisters in Christ who display the Confederate battle flag as a memorial... to consider prayerfully whether to limit, or even more so, discontinue its display.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.

Wave a Confederate battle flag (it's one way to get people to talk to you).

In June, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley supported the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol, and in December, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments.

Not exact matches

And he paid tribute to a nurse named Elmina Spencer who walked into the midst of battle to care for wounded soldiers and then opened a hospital where she attended to both Union and Confederate soldiers.

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Jesus rode a T - Rex into battle as he led the Confederate Army to victory against the Viet Cong in WWII.

A brief glance through Huntington's Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments reveals that the majority of Union monuments rose between 1885, the twentieth anniversary of the war's end, and 1893, the thirtieth anniversary of the battle, though Confederate representation at Gettysburg was virtually nonexistent until Virginia raised the first Confederate state monument, featuring Robert E. Lee, in 1917.

Civil War Days: Union and Confederate re-enactment forces will battle for supremacy Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville.

Just south of the Mason - Dixon line and north of the Union - Confederate lines during most of the Civil War (and the scene of its bloodiest battle, Antietam), Maryland is a crossroads state, with both Northern and Southern influences and with both industrial and rural economies.

During the Civil War battle of Seven Pines in Virginia in 1862, Confederate troops attacked a strong Union force.

«I don't think the Confederates would have won the battle if there hadn't been any acoustic shadows,» Ross says, «but I think history definitely would have been different.»

At his camp some two miles away, the Confederate general Joseph Johnston tried to coordinate the attack, but he didn't know the battle had begun because he couldn't hear the fighting, even though people several miles farther away heard the battle clearly.

Limestones and dolostones shaped the terrain of multiple important battle sites, including Antietam, Stones River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, and Monocacy, and these rock types proved consequential with respect to the tactics employed by both Union and Confederate commanders.

Joined by Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a squawking onetime Southern bushwhacker who claims to be Red Rock's incoming sheriff, they arrive at Minnie's, which is occupied not by the Mexican - hating proprietress, but, suspiciously, by a bandito - type called Bob (Demián Bichir); Red Rock's English hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, initially as suave as Christophe Waltz); soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), who's apparently travelling home to mom; and former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern, pictured below), who oversaw the mass execution of black Union recruits at the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge.

Almost every subplot and contextual element in Siegel's film — a spot of incest, a lone slave on the premises, an alarming visit by Confederate soldiers — has been neatly and not always satisfyingly pared away, leaving only the story's battle - of - the - sexes core.

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:

He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union «sHousatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to - the - day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.

Though Confederate General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered to Union troops in Appomattox, Virginia, in April of 1865, troops from both sides had one final battle in May.

It took place by the Rio Grande River, and although Union and Confederate soldiers knew of the truce in Virginia, Southern soldiers actually won this last battle and took over 100 prisoners of war.

Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, the Cliff House first opened its doors here on the West Coast in 1863 — the same year Civil War Union troops repelled General Lee's Confederate advances during the Battle of Gettysburg!

Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn - based strategy game from the developers behind the international top - selling Tank Battle: 1944 and Ancient Battle: Rome.

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.

Inspired by the eponymous infantry assault by the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, it is circular in form and wraps itself continuously around the (ring - shaped) Hirshhorn's entire third floor.

Roland Meiers takes a break from his role as a Confederate provost marshal during the reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek.

America's obsession with the Civil War has never dulled; year after year living history reenactors take to the historic battlefields to commemorate famous battles between Yankee and Confederate soldiers.

A Confederate soldier (portrayed by Andrew Hoisington, standing) and a Southern plantation owner (portrayed by Thomas Tear) strike a formal pose during a reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia.

Views of a Confederate general's monument, a burning sugar cane field and a battle scene being shot for a Civil War film reward lengthy examination.

The city suffered through several Civil War battles, finally losing to the Confederates in October 1864.

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.