Sentences with phrase «as confederate»

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.

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

You start as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War, but quickly desert to go back to your family home and do some saving.

Established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, the hotel also served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

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.

Peace is shattered as Confederate and Federal troops meet on the fields and farms surrounding a tiny Methodist church.

If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

In particular, the moment when the freed men and women are abandoned by the creek as Confederate forces descend will surprise and horrify many readers.

The new film from director Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) stars Oscar - winner Matthew McConaughey as a Confederate soldier who becomes disillusioned with the South's cause and declares a safe haven in Jones County, Miss..

Here, he's just as cranky as ever — but largely underutilized — as a Confederate general.

At one point, Metz refers to the time «I was fightin» for the Grays» — slang for his days as a Confederate soldier.

With that, Tarantino brought out the star - studded cast with whom he'd rehearsed the first draft script for three days: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as the cruel bounty hunter John Ruth, Tim Roth as the English «bit of a fop» Oswaldo Mobray, Amber Tamblyn as Daisy Domergue, Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, Michael Madsen as John Gage, Bruce Dern as Confederate Gen. Smithers, James Parks as stagecoach driver O.B., Denis Menochet as the Frenchman Bob, Dana Gourrier as Minnie, Zoe Bell as Six Horse Judy and James Remar as Jody.

Anson Mount (Conviction, Crossroads) stars as the Confederate soldier, Cullen Bohannan.

Jackson was born in Topeka, Kansas, to a military family who could trace their history to a great - grandfather who served as a Confederate cook in the Civil War.

The 90 - day review of «all symbols of hate» began in August following the removal of several monuments to controversial historical figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

As the Confederate flag controversy died down, another controversy was heating up in rural Rowan County, Kentucky.

Ironically, one person who thought the country should not having monuments like these in the first place — as well as Confederate flags — displayed was Robert E. Lee.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

(Laughter) So the basic physics of magnetism undermined the usefulness of the ironclad vessels, even as the Confederates were stocking up on them.

Not exact matches

The Confederate situation got worse as the war went on since the Confederate States of America established their own currency and it saw rapid inflation as the war situation got worse and worse.

West Virginia split from confederate Virginia and officially joined the Union as a separate state in 1863.

These two institutions — and the significant shared sovereignty they imply - are seen as stepping stones toward an original political union of confederated nation states.

Ben Engebreth, a programmer at CamelCamelCamel, said the company doesn't have nearly as much data on Confederate flags as it does for other, more commonly tracked Amazon products, like televisions, computers and household appliances.

But during a freewheeling press conference on Tuesday, Trump returned to his original position, labeling multiple parties as complicit in the Charlottesville unrest and seeming to defend some of those seeking to protest the Confederate statue's removal.

Trump also said if city and state officials were willing to take down statues and monuments of Confederate heroes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, America's founding fathers — such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — could go next.

Named for two significant figures in American history — President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — Washington and Lee is steeped in traditions, including the school's honor code, which allows students such freedoms as scheduling their own exams and taking them without supervision.

The alleged perpetrator, Dylann Roof, has been shown posing with the Confederate flag in photos, as well as making racist remarks.

I'm also more reluctant to view Confederates — beginning with Lee — as traitors.

Maybe the latter should be regarded as the questionable but justifiable choice of a formerly Confederate state.

«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.

In a June 28 sermon, Hall complained that the windows put a «decidedly saintly spin on two leaders of the Confederate Army,» whose «inscriptions portray them as exemplary Christian gentlemen,» but «contain no reference to the sin of slavery which both men fought — and one died — to uphold.»

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.

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

The insight of Nuremberg taught us that when we take possession of others, when their bodies are forcibly delivered up to be used as we wish, then no antecedent good will and no subsequent scientific yield will absolve us from having been confederates in their oppression....

R.E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee once served as senior warden will no longer honour the Confederate general in its name, following the vestry voting 7 - 5 to change the church's name to its previous name, Grace Episcopal Church.

But as even the excellent, aristocratic, Confederate defender of the book [linked by Carl] against democratic [Northern?]

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

«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).

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

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.»

Earlier this year there were protests over the future of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as well as violent rallies by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, prompting the discussion in Alexandria to progress.

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

This is sad, I bet he feels the same hate for the Nazi flag as most Americans do against the Confederate flag and what it represents...

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.

I realize I'm not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were ever to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it.

But as I stand here talking to Jim among the multiple RVs flying Confederate flags, it's somewhat impressive Dale Jr. said anything at all.

She was captured by the Confederate army and kept as a prisoner of war.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

If they play their cards right the independence referendum and some of the conquered territories could be instrumental as bargaining chips to integrate at least some additional territories to the KRG area or maybe gain a confederate status within Iraq.

But the current field pits a state delegate against Corey Stewart — Trump's former state chair who failed in his 2017 gubernatorial run as a defender of Confederate «heritage» — and E.W. Jackson.