Sentences with phrase «southern confederacy»

The city's waterways powered flour mills and ironworks that made it an important manufacturing base for the Southern Confederacy and regenerated Richmond after the Civil War.

Try looking at how people idolize the Southern Confederacy when all they did was seceed to maintain their state's right to have slavery, the worst blight on the history of the United States.

The so - called paleoconservatives» an odd amalgam of extreme libertarians, isolationists, anti-Vatican II Catholics, and unreconstructed defenders of the Southern Confederacy» find their reason for being in endless denunciations of the neoconservatives, and of the National Review traditionalists for having sold out to them.

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Ferguson describes meeting the protest's leader, a rhapsodist of the Old Confederacy, who believes Lincoln «invented the concept of Total War» in order to advance the interests of Big Business and Big Government and smash «a Southern culture of farms and small towns that only asked to be left alone.»

To end it once and for all, Lincoln needed a constitutional amendment enacted before the Confederacy surrendered and the Southern states rejoined the Congress.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

Bowie's list also featured famed novels like George Orwell's 1984, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Anthony Burgess» A Clockwork Orange and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and music books like Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom and a collection of John Cage lectures and writings.

The beautiful widow, Rose O'Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals.

The Southern States, a title that will conjure up images of historical Confederacy, pecan pie, the rolling green hills of Virginia and the sweltering swamplands of Florida's Everglades.

During the Civil War the Confederacy had to contend with three differing gauge sizes, something many historians attribute to their eventual vanquish by the Unionists; «The Confederate government was never able to coax the fragmented, run - down, multi-gauged network of southern railroads into the same degree of efficiency exhibited by northern roads.