Sentences with phrase «days of the civil war»

In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days of the Civil War, we find a level of experience which does the seemingly impossible of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»

A couple of buddies are looking for a treasure from the days of the Civil War which they believe is now in Africa somehow (just go with it).

The movie follows three Southern women — two sisters and one African American slave — who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

Everything else is left to the margins: his «team of rivals» cabinet, the long exile of Jefferson Davis, the last hellish days of the Civil War... If you're hoping that Spielberg has again succumbed to his worst instincts to deliver a Hall of Presidents feel - good piece about Abraham Lincoln vs. slavery, boy, are you in luck.

Centering on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the waning days of the Civil War, the movie is dialogue - heavy, focusing on legislative process and party politics as Lincoln and his aides try to win the necessary votes from both fellow Republicans and Democrats across the aisle.

This comedic Young Guns-esque romp follows Jesse James (Colin Farrell) from the closing days of the Civil War, when he rode with Quantrill's Rangers alongside his brother Frank (Gabriel Macht) and their cousins Cole and Bob Younger (Scott Caan and Will McCormack, respectively), until the peak of his celebrity as a Robin Hood - like outlaw.

You'll pardon the embroidery metaphor, which comes straight from the movie itself, a darkly absorbing Southern gothic tale set in 1864, during the fraught final days of the Civil War.

«The Keeping Room» Synopsis: In the dying days of the Civil War, three South Carolina women are besieged in their family farm by a pair of Yankee scouts.

Set in the waning days of the Civil War, this heartfelt novel follows a widow who finds solace in the camaraderie of her quilting group.

Award - winning Bolden's latest takes readers back to 1864, the waning days of the Civil War.

The Fallen Land is a gritty, bone - chilling saga about a young couple struggling to survive against impossible odds during the wretched, sad last days of the Civil War (Patricia G).

Twenty years after COLD MOUNTAIN, which won the National Book Award, became an international bestseller and adapted into an Academy Award - winning film, Charles Frazier revisits the days of the Civil War era in his latest novel, VARINA.

The last meeting of the Confederate cabinet took place here in the closing days of the Civil War.

Not exact matches

The president then explained that he and his advisors spent «days and weeks» worth of time meeting about Syria and trying to find a way to ease the suffering and end the civil war.

The movie ticket sales site said on Wednesday that pre-sale tickets for Black Panther outpaced the first - day advance sales of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, which previously had the best first day of pre-sales for a movie from Walt Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

For most of us, however, our very worst day would seem like a vacation to somebody who has real problems — like not having enough to eat, or trying to survive a civil war.

Osceola saw guerilla fighting during the days of the American Civil War.

«Especially in these days, may he sustain the efforts of all those actively engaged in bringing comfort and relief to the civil population in Syria, prey to a war that continues to sow horror and death.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

One issue was the church's visible participation in the dominant political issues of the day notably the struggle for civil rights for minorities and the protests against the Vietnam war.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Reuters: Patriarch warns Syrians of reliving Lebanon's errors The head of Lebanon's Maronite Church evoked his country's long civil war to condemn the futility of conflict, on the second day of a controversial visit to Syria's war - ravaged capital Damascus.

20 years behind us southern states and NEW YORK, sad and scary... nobody denies freedoms like the south, nobody... the top ten incarcerators on the planet are southern states and more blacks are in prison then were slaves before the civil war... even if marijuana reforms did pass the republiCANTS in charge would deny you all your freedoms, centuries of practice... no matter though, we never planned on getting your backwards brethren from day one, half the country already but not one southern state, lol... not 1....

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

(CNN)- As President Obama rallies support for a military strike on Syria, Pope Francis condemned chemical weapons and called for an international day of fasting and prayer to press for a peaceful resolution to Syria's escalating civil war.

They take in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, where Martin Luther King fought the D - Day of the civil rights movement; the story of a woman Wilma Derksen who forgave her daughter's murderer; and the incredible courage of the World War Two Huguenots who defied the Nazis.

If that is the version of democracy you believe in then the day is not far when this nation will plunge into a thousand civil wars.

And on the two main collective moral issues of our day — the civil rights movement that seeks democratic improvements for our black minority, and opposition to the terrible and mistaken war in Vietnam — the thoroughly ecumenical cooperation among the three biblical faiths gives one a reassuring confidence that unpolemical attitudes are not in contrast to moral commitments.

We would all like to believe that, had we lived in the days of the early church or the Protestant Reformation or the Civil War, we would have chosen the right side of things, but I think that's a bit presumptuous.

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'm in Libya right now, I see every day the effect of civil war takes on a country.

The fire occurred during Naper Settlement's Civil War Days weekend, but DeFalco said the event was able to go on as planned and the rest of the museum is still open.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.. While the North and South will clash daily in impressive battles, complete with period costumes and weaponry, the real stars of the spectacle will be the more than 300 re-enactors.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

Throughout the two - day event, re-enactors will mingle with the crowd and remain in character to replicate the era and the tension of the Civil War conflict, said Cynthia Lamb, marketing communications manager for Naper Settlement.

NAPERVILLE — Naper Settlement will be transformed into the fictional 1864 Illinois border community of Pine Creek for a re-enactment of Civil War Days.

A 19th Century village complete with a log house, a fort, businesses, a firehouse, schoolhouse, meeting house, chapel and homes, the 13 - acre Naper Settlement site is the perfect setting for Civil War Days, which feature re-enactors from a variety of Midwestern «regiments,» from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.

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.

The two parties had reached a remarkable peace accord a few days earlier, hoping to end 52 years of civil war.

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.

During the civil war production plummeted to only 60,000 barrels a day, amounting to less than 20 % of Libya's domestic needs.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

«They know they can't win any election in this country, so they are planning war to create confusion so the international community can come in for power sharing, the civil war agenda of NPP will not see the light of day» he assured.

I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

Poughkeepsie, NY... The 2014 Dutchess Heritage Days program season will kick off on the weekend of June 14 - 15th at Tymor Park with the Dutchess Heritage Days History Fair and Civil War Weekend.

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln likewise called for a day of Thanksgiving in November:

The endorsement was made Wednesday, a day before Johnson made headlines by asking «what is Aleppo» when questioned during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» about the city that is at the heart of of Syria's devastating civil war.

In the Times a few days ago, Adam Boulton speculated «If the Tory civil war rages on, Jeremy Corbyn may not be so unelectable after all, especially if he can forge some kind of red - tartan coalition».

It comes just days after senior Tories began a major operation to save Mr Cameron's Premiership from the ruins of his party's EU referendum civil war.