Sentences with phrase «after confederate»

Raeford was named after Confederate General Robert F. Hoke and today, it has a population of roughly 4,600 residents.

Raeford was named after Confederate General Robert F. Hoke and today, it has a population of roughly 4,600 residents.

In Washington a few days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, she was seized by such intense, overwhelming dread that she begged Ulysses to depart for their home in New Jersey immediately.

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Approximately 100 public schools — nearly half in Virginia and Texas alone — are named after Confederate generals, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy group.

The actress attended J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax County in the»70s, a school that was named after a Confederate general.

An American church named after a Confederate general has decided to change its name after debating the... More

An American church named after a Confederate general has decided to change its name after debating the issue for two years.

Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals?

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Walmart said Monday it will no longer sell the Confederate flag or items emblazoned with its likeness in stores or online, a move that came in the hours after South Carolina's governor called for the flag to come down on Statehouse grounds.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

The second wave occurred in Confederate states after the Civil War.

After having voted March 28 to remove the Confederate general's name from the school.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

It was first known as Decoration Day and was inspired by the flowers being placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers after the end of the Civil War.

Bishop Leonidas Polk, the principal founder, a West Point man and the man who helped select Sewanee's location, «by merit of... railway contiguity... [and] mountain air and pure water... beyond the reach of epidemics,» accepted a Confederate commission partly because Union sympathizers burned Sewanee buildings after Lincoln's election.

It is pretty clear that the striker wanted a transfer away from Arsenal this summer and it is increasingly clear that Arsene Wenger intends to stand his ground and keep him, with The Mirror reporting that the boss has declared that he expects Alexis to begin pre-season training on Sunday, along with our German defender Shkodran Mustafi who is also back late after featuring in the Confederate's Cup final.

Even though the Arsenal and Chile striker Alexis Sanchez finally jetted in to London this week after a summer break extended by the Confederates Cup and then delayed by «illness» to the wantaway player, Arsenal fans were still not really sure if the 28 - year old would be playing for the Gunners this season or not, until now that is.

I'd imagine it's difficult to uphold constitutional obligations of raising and funding a military, since the military was used during the Civil War to take down the confederate states; and those regions definitely had nothing to fork over for a while after that defeat.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

After the uproar from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville two weeks ago, New York City leaders are debating removing monuments to Confederate leaders like Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as well as other racist or otherwise problematic figures.

After New Orleans removed Confederate memorials, Brooklyn's Democratic Members of Congress called on the Army to do the same.

A descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee who made headlines for denouncing racism on last month's MTV Video Music Awards is leaving his post at a Winston - Salem after some in the congregation expressed discomfort over some of his statements.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe struck a softer tone on Confederate monuments yesterday, two weeks after urging Virginia's cities and state legislature to move them to museums or graveyards, saying relocation might be too costly to undertake after all.

Paladino was removed from the board on Aug. 17, days after violence erupted in Charlottesville amid protests over the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

The University of Texas hastily removed four Confederate monuments from its campus after its president said the statues represented «modern white supremacy» and «neo-Nazism.»

@user4012 - Yes Lincoln did it for any confederate soldier that was willing to take an oath of alliegance after the civil war.

The discussion surrounding the Columbus statue began after after a protester was killed during a violent rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia last month stemming from the removal of Confederate monuments.

De Blasio, a Democrat, has faced criticism from the Italian - American group after he named a blue - ribbon panel last month to examine the city's controversial monuments and other «symbols of hate» in the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue honoring a Confederate leader.

One gun show last year turned particularly controversial after a Democratic legislative aide snapped pictures of Confederate and Nazi memorabilia and books being sold and displayed inside the show, giving rise to Democratic calls for its removal.

They seem to have been put up long after the war and many (more strangely) in places that weren't part of the Confederate States.

A Houston man has been arrested after being accused by authorities of trying to damage or destroy a Confederate statue at a Houston park with explosives.

After the event, Howard issued a statement saying «I understand that some members of the crowd at this public event displayed a confederate flag and I know that members of the Black Lives Matter organization were there as well.

«After the investigation is entirely removed from the jurisdiction of the NYS Attorney General's office, in the event there is proof of wrong doing, I will be interested in seeing that the US Attorney's office brings the full weight of its resources down upon Ms. Conlin and her NARAL confederates to the same degree that it was dropped upon former Senator Pedro Espada and those investigated and indicted for similar allegations of wrongdoings.»

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the city will conduct a review of its art, statues, and «all symbols of hate» after the violent protests in Charlottesville surrounding the removal of a statue to top Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

After slaying undead Confederate soldiers in «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» our 16th president tackles an even scarier task in Steven Spielberg's ambitious, often ponderous and Oscar - mongering «Lincoln» — pushing the 13th Amendment through the House of Representatives.

His pet peeve is the city administration's plan to rename Confederate Square after the pompous, mildly corrupt town mayor (Thurston Hall).

Synopsis: After the Civil War ends, Confederate soldiers Frank (Gabriel Macht) and Jesse James (Colin Farrell) return home with the three Younger brothers to... [MORE]

There are heartbreaking moments to convey (notably how freed slaves were almost immediately denied their new rights by former Confederates allowed back into the Union), but the last third of the picture is one exposition title card of historical facts after another and it all ends with a collective thud.

After acing a mean - spirited Confederate soldier in «The Free State of Jones,» he now plays another 19th century baddie in this ultra-violent western starring Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce.

Once in the backwoods, Melanie: reunites with sour Ma (Mary Kay Place) and dour Pa (Fred Ward), both actors modeling their characters on Grant Wood's necessarily two - dimensional painting «American Gothic»; «outs» poor Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry)-- in the real world, they'd probably have been hung from the same pole flying the Confederate Flag outside the local watering hole; and delivers the most embarrassing monologue since Phoebe Cates's in Gremlins to, of all things, a license plate marking the burial spot of a «coon dog» named after legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul «Bear» Bryant.

After Union troops tunnel under Confederate lines and set off powerful explosives, the position caves in — but not with the expected results.

Set during the Kansas - Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate - sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull's father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, and find an unusual ally in Holt (Jeffrey Wright), who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.

Rating: R Year: 1999 Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright Director: Ang Lee After his family is massacred by Union marauders, a plantation owner's son and his best friend create a rag - tag group of Confederate guerrillas to seek revenge.

After about five minutes of grandiose solemnity, Park drops the charade, revealing that the titular handmaiden, Sook - hee (Kim Tae - ri), is actually a master thief who's been assigned to persuade a Japanese heiress, Hideko (Kim Min - hee), to marry Sook - hee's confederate (Ha Jung - woo), who poses as one Count Fujiwara.

It's set soon after the Civil War and there still exists a palpable uneasiness between Confederate and Union types, creating a constantly teetering milieu between violence and progress.

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

After the year of Charlottesville and clashes over Confederate statues, how we address the racist history of this country feels remarkably timely, and, hopefully, this film can be an important conversation - starter along those lines.

The joke of the time was that while the Confederates could not seize Louisville in war, they had no trouble taking over after the South surrendered, and they returned to fill all the posts in City Hall.

Some question whether schools here should be named after figures from Confederate history â $ «examples include Lee High School, named after General Robert E. Lee.