Sentences with phrase «by confederate»

Abraham Galloway, a former fugitive slave who returned to North Carolina and helped draft the state's 1868 constitution, called the judiciary chosen by the Confederate state legislature a «bastard born of sin and secession» and helped move the state to judicial elections.

Tuco survives and tracks Blondie to a hotel in a town being abandoned by Confederate troops.

1st DC Cavalry Henry Rifle Captured by Confederate General Wade Hampton During the Beefsteak Raid and Given to His Adjutant, Major Henry B. McClellan, a Lee Letter, and an Image of McClellan, c.

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.

I was just shocked by the Confederate flags on the lawns and the jokes about the «War of Northern Aggression.»

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.

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

But that inexorable advance by Union troops was momentarily slowed just outside Atlanta on June 27, 1864, by Confederate soldiers stationed atop an isolated 1,809 - foot - high promontory in Cobb County.

The living clutched the ground, immobilized by Confederate fire, while the wounded and dying could do little but cry.

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.

The UO study also incorporated measurements taken since 2002 by the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and since 2011 by the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Suislaw Indians.

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.

«To help reduce the caseload, the state is exploring a variety of approaches, including a novel method called a «holistic defense pilot project» already used by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Not exact matches

A 3 - foot - by -5-foot nylon Confederate flag made by a Pennsylvania company called Valley Forge Flags jumped to 871st on the list of Amazon's most - popular items on Tuesday.

The price and popularity of a Confederate flag on Amazon spiked just before Amazon stopped selling all such items in the wake of deadly shootings in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

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.»

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

The President of the Confederate State said, «Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God.

«This morning we continue our march to reconciliation by removing the Jefferson Davis Confederate statue from its pedestal of reverence,» Mayor Mitch Landrieu tweeted.

New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

In Charleston, South Carolina, when those innocent people were shot during a bible study, the eloquence of their difficult words, «I forgive you,» spoke more directly to defeat the evil perpetrated by a tortured man than did the ensuing media firestorm which brought down one Confederate flag.

Last year, Memphis found a legal loophole that enabled them to remove two Confederate statues and a Confederate bust by selling the parks that housed the statues to a nonprofit.

(By the reasoning of elite Democrats, the 30 percent of African - American Virginians who oppose taking down the Confederate monuments either do not exist or are highly confused white supremacists.)

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.

Defenders of Confederate memorials, including President Donald Trump, have warned against «changing history» by removing them.

Confederates fired by volley and their massed artillery had an uninterrupted field of fire over the entire ground.

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In light of the Charleston shooting, God has granted grace on Americans by allowing them to see where they had been «blind,» said Obama, alluding to the recent call by many of South Carolina's politicians to take down the Confederate flag.

«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 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.

When, following the Jessica Hahn expose in the spring of 1987, he was finally forced to resign from PTL, Bakker typically explained: «I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate.»

If you posit that Jesus never existed, then you are in the minority of minorities, and either you have never studied the evidence and writings (both holy and secular authors), or you are in the class of historical revisionists occupied by Bart Ehrman, the Jesus Seminar, and those guys who say that the Confederate States of America won the War of Northern Aggression in 1865.

I'm thinking along the lines of: — the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) personally led by none other than George Washington — the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry (1859)-- the Confederate States of America (1861 — 1865)-- the Bonus Army (1932)-- the Branch Davidians (1993)

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.

This happened YESTERDAY with a kid who shot to stardom on Twitter Sunday night because of a video of him crying over being bullied, and by mid-day Monday members of his immediate family were discovered to be Confederate flag - waving yahoos who are now alleged to have popularized his video for profit.

The town will be Union controlled, but Confederate forces will not stand by idly.

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The Avengers, by their demands, are pressing, at gunpoint, their divine right, and that of their pan-Nigeria confederates, to loot the public till!

De Blasio has seized hold of the national debate over the removal of confederate monuments by ordering a review of all possible «symbols of hate» in the city — once again grabbing national attention while simultaneously putting himself in a tricky situation.

To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal - leaning college town.

Under fire for defending racist activist groups, President Trump said on Twitter that he was «sad» to see United States» history torn apart by the removal of «our beautiful statues and monuments,» echoing a popular refrain of white supremacist groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments.

Social: 1: involving allies or confederates (c.f. the Social War between the Roman Republic and its allies) 2a: marked by or passed in pleasant companionship with friends or associates (an active social life)

Statues across the country depicting Confederate soldiers have been removed by localities in recent days.

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.

That may be a needless concern considering that some iconic antebellum Confederate cities are represented by African American Members of Congress.

Staten Island Assembly member Matthew Titone also expressed concern about the «slippery slope» of a review that was sparked by opposition to Confederate monuments.

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.

Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.