Sentences with phrase «former confederate»

The city of Naples was founded during the late 1880s by former Confederate general and Kentucky U.S. Senator John Stuart Williams and his partner, Louisville businessman Walter N. Haldeman, the publisher of the Louisville Courier - Journal.

At the war's end, Grant remained commander of the army, with duties that included dealing with Maximilian and French troops in Mexico, enforcement of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states, and supervision of Indian wars on the western Plains.

While her neighbors cower inside their homes, Emma goes searching for help in a nearby town and hires bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), who in turn recruits six other men — drunken gambler Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), former Confederate sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), knives expert Billy Rocks (Byung - hun Lee), fur trapper Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio), Mexican outlaw Vasquez (Manuel Garcia - Rulfo) and Comanche warrior Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier)-- to protect the town and put an end to Bogue's tyranny.

Stoller seems patently unafraid of trying new things — and really weird stuff at that, there's a damn star wipe in this movie for crying out loud — while Trost, a former confederate of Rob Zombie, pushes the visuals brilliantly.

There's a furtive and rather cryptic Mexican (Demian Bichir) who calls himself Bob, a former Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a smug and effete British hangman (Tim Roth, filling what might otherwise be the Christoph Waltz part), and a smirking gunman named Joe Gage (Michael Madsen, doing the Michael Madsen thing).

Back in time and on Earth in 1868, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch, devoid of personality), a former Confederate soldier, was searching for gold in Arizona when he found an otherworldly cave.

In this tale, first serialized in 1912 and set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, we meet the title character (played by the unfortunately named Taylor Kitsch of Friday Night Lights), a former Confederate captain whose search for a gold - filled cave has him leaping through time and space to the planet of Mars.

The diabolical assemblage is made up of John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, featuring world class whiskers), a bounty hunter who is handcuffed to his latest prize Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh); another bounty hunter (Union) Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson); British fancy boy Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth) who says he's the hangman for Red Rock; the self - professed new Sheriff of Red Rock Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins); General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), a former Confederate officer; quiet cowpoke Joe Gage (Michael Madsen); and Senor Bob (Demian Bichir), whom Minnie left tending the store in her absence.

Fortunately, Carter (Taylor Kitsch), a former Confederate captain mysteriously transported to our red neighbor, becomes embroiled in the political strife.

Along the way, he picks up another bounty hunter, Marquis (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Civil War major in a black regiment; and the town's newly elected sheriff, a former Confederate soldier, played by an interesting actor named Walton Goggins (TV's «Justified»), who has an edge of bug - eyed menace.

Joined by Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a squawking onetime Southern bushwhacker who claims to be Red Rock's incoming sheriff, they arrive at Minnie's, which is occupied not by the Mexican - hating proprietress, but, suspiciously, by a bandito - type called Bob (Demián Bichir); Red Rock's English hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, initially as suave as Christophe Waltz); soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), who's apparently travelling home to mom; and former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern, pictured below), who oversaw the mass execution of black Union recruits at the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge.

The other six include Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Union officer who lives in the Wyoming mountains; Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), a cow - puncher; Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), a Brit and Red Rock's new hangman; Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a Southern renegade claiming to be the town's new Sheriff; General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), a former Confederate general; and Bob (Demian Bichir), a Mexican who's taken over innkeeper duties at Minnie's while the eponymous owner is visiting her mother.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

Bob McManus: «Certainly an intense gubernatorial focus will be on two federal courtrooms in Manhattan next month, as a pair of former confederates in state government go on trial for their freedom — and the chief federal prosecutor makes no secret of his interest in Cuomo as well.»

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.

The prestige player is based on the true story of Newton Knight, a Mississippian who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and led a band of former Confederates who took control of a number of southern Mississippi counties.

Not exact matches

Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs, indicated that his resignation would have satisfied those who'd marched in Charlottesville brandishing Confederate flags and swastikas.

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.»

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.

Flying the Confederate flag doesn't make South Carolina a racist state, the former Arkansas governor said Sunday on NBC's «Meet the Press.»

Disgraced former Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was convicted of taking $ 20,000 to sponsor legislation giving his confederates a monopoly in adult day care services.

«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.»

There are two bounty hunters, a former union soldier (Samuel L. Jackson) and sadist named The Hangman (Kurt Russell), Russell's prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a new sheriff (Walton Goggins), an executioner (Tim Roth), a stranger (Michael Madsen), an old confederate soldier (Bruce Dern), and a Mexican cabin worker named Bob (Demian Bichir)... broad character types are big part of the western genre and the Tarantino delights in playing with them.

To secure the support of the former, he must promise Representative Francis Blair (Hal Holbrook) that he will entertain the peace overtures of a Confederate delegation, thereby exposing the amendment vote to significant political risk.

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.

Along the way they pick up Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a notorious bounty hunter who's a former slave and Union officer; and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a Confederate veteran who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock.

«Max» is mostly about Max saving the Marine's younger brother (Josh Wiggins) and father (Thomas Haden Church) from his duplicitous former service buddy (Luke Kleintank) and his gun - dealing Mexican confederates.

The ghosts of the Civil War long hovered over the Derby where in the early years former slave owners and Confederates not only dominated the crowd but the politics of Louisville, itself.

Leader: Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor; Department Chair, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NHC Fellow 1995 — 96 Teacher Leader: Kevin Levin, Civil War historian and former history teacher Confederate monuments are the most common form of monumental public art in the former states of the Confederacy.

In the midst of the Great Depression, on January 16, 1936, Virginia's political and business leaders bravely demonstrated their faith in the future and their belief in the value of art by opening the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on the former site of the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers» Home.

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.