Sentences with phrase «of civil war generals»

Major streets bear the names of Civil War generals, with cross streets named after Spanish - American War admirals.

Hosting many important people like John D Rockefeller, President James Garfield including a host of Civil war generals and Cleveland dignitaries, the tombs and landscapes all blended in effortlessly with beautiful vistas, lakes and botanical gardens that you can walk or drive through if you are in a hurry.

Planned removal of a statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee sparked protests by white supremacists, which in turn inspired counter protests.

Jones is having hallucinations of a Civil War general advising him (these sequences are handled terribly) and they move the story more than any thought processes.

The ceiling and beams in a second guest room are reclaimed oak, and the bed by Room & Board has a custom - made headboard; an antique armchair, which belonged to Holland's grandmother, is covered in a wool by Holland & Sherry, and the portrait of a Civil War general was found in North Carolina.

Not exact matches

As Dale Carnegie noted in his biography of the 16th president, «Lincoln the Unknown,» Lincoln once drafted a stern rebuke of General George Meade, who'd disobeyed Lincoln's orders during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

Leaders at the cathedral have announced plans to remove images of Confederate battle flags shown in large stained glass displays that honor Civil War generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, both of whom led Confederate forces.

The 1947 — 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine lasted from 30 November 1947, the date of the United Nations General Assembly vote for the Part ition Plan for Palestine, [3] to the termination of the British Mandate itself on 14 May 1948.

, destroy several places that are the only locations hudreds of thousands of women can get a general health and wellness check - up done, single out and destroy the civil liberties of a minority group of people in America, oh and start a new war.

Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist.

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

Well, during our Civil War they told Lincoln that Grant was a drunkard, and Lincoln answered that he wished he knew what kind of liquor Grant drank, that he might get some for his other generals.

Landis's father, Abraham H. Landis, was a surgeon attached to the 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment that marched through Georgia with General William Tecumseh Sherman in the climactic battles of the Civil War.

«Remember, General Shuwa fought for the survival of this country during the civil war.

Clearly he was an early and avid supporter of Barack Obama, but interspersing the 2008 presidential election with in - depth studies of Montgomery Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War, leaves the reader perplexed and thirsting for more, which is not provided.

The video is a rap - spoof of a media interview with «General Baxter, representing AFRICOM», probably a play on the American Union Army General Henry Baxter (1821 — 1873) who fought during the American Civil War.

A humble man who knew success and failure, he was the outstanding Union general of the Civil War.

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that Nigeria is on the verge of another Civil War following the...

The Times Herald - Record of Middletown reports U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, both Democrats, say the Lee Barracks at West Point should no longer bear the Civil War general's name.

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that Nigeria is on the verge of another Civil War following the yet - to - be addressed incessant killings of other Nigerians by herdsmen.

In lieu of a concrete law or a tidied up Amendment, the government can slip around the sides of Section 4, Article 14 regardless of whether constitutional scholars consider the section specific to the Civil War and future insurrections (that bothersome but neither conjunction) or general to all public debt.

When asked to adopt the leadership of the SNP following the resignation of John Swinney in 2004, Salmond quoted union army general William Sherman, who, on being asked to run for president following the American Civil War, declared: «If nominated I'll decline.

Established in 1778, the Office of the Secretary of State is a historically distinguished position that has been held by some of New York's most esteemed public servants, beginning with Revolutionary War General John Scotts, to John Adams Dix, who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary, a Civil War General, and the 24th Governor of New York.

Historically, The Guinea - Bissau Civil War, which was fought from 7 June 1998 to 10 May 1999 and was ostensibly triggered by an attempted coup led by General Ansumane Mane against the government of President Vieira.

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.

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has revealed how he visited the South East region after the Civil War and what the people told him...

«The BBC Trust is facing the axe after the outbreak of «civil war» between its chairman, Lord Patten, and Mark Thompson, the former director - general, over excessive pay - offs to senior executives.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Mitchel was called to active duty in the Union army as a general.

Saad Abu Hammour, secretary - general of the Jordan Valley Authority, told the Jerusalem hearing that the scarcity of water in Jordan has been exacerbated by the arrival of more than 250,000 Syrian refugees into the country since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion)-- A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14 - year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.

The film becomes a mystery as to whether one of the patrons really is there to break out Domergue or when Jackson is going to get to go crazy on the old vicious Civil War General, General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern).

Focusing on historical events involving several key battles in the early months of the Civil War, it follows the movement of General Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson (Stephan Lang) and his heroic brigade.

Civil War was also partly filmed with IMAX cameras and the movie in general tends to feel big, visually - speaking, in - between its action sequences and many establishing shots of locations around the globe (as well as the massive title font that's used to identify each individual change in location)- making IMAX the preferable viewing format for Civil War.

To paraphrase Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, «War is all hell, boys,» and Gibson certainly gives us his own private slice of Hades with these often repellent scenes of blinding, acrid smoke, bomb craters, fatal bullet wounds, bayonet attacks, grenade explosions, artillery bursts and horrid flame - thrower deaths among the mostly constantly - charging Nipponese soldiers.

One of the numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe actors reprising their roles for 2016's Captain America: Civil War is William Hurt's General Thaddeus Ross.

Back at the start of May, it was announced that The Incredible Hulk star William Hurt will be reprising the role of General Thunderbolt Ross for next year's Phase Three - launching Captain America: Civil War, and Hurt has been speaking about returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in an interview with IGN.

One of them, of an economic nature, is represented by the general crisis of the world capitalist system that tends to drive the world economy to depression with the failure of governments, business bankruptcies, mass unemployment and even the outbreak of civil wars and new world conflagration as has occurred in the twentieth century with the 1st and 2nd World War.

One of an economic nature, is represented by the general crisis of the world capitalist system that tends to lead the world economy to depression with the failure of governments, the crash of companies, mass unemployment and even the outbreak of civil wars and new world conflagration as has happened in the twentieth century with the 1st and the 2nd World War.

Instead of more general questions (such as «Why did the North fight the Civil War?»)

As this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I have a feeling there will be keen interest in the life of military generals from that period — not that history buffs aren't always interested in the CW.

An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens.

In March 1865, only a few weeks before the end of the Civil War, the tempestuous Mary Lincoln accompanied her husband on a visit to General Ulysses S. Grant's military headquarters at City Point, Virginia, where she had a very public meltdown.

Bell's novel about the Civil War experiences of General Nathan Bedford Forrest brings one of history's most gifted — and controversial — wartime leaders to life.

Other Pulitzer winners include Annette Gordon - Reed, who took the History prize for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (BookPage review here); Douglas A. Blackmon, who won in General Nonfiction for Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II; and W.S. Merwin, whose collection The Shadow of Sirius won the Poetry prize.

Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family's legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, the one - time college golden boy and descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short - circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Civil War re-enactor.

At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.

Lodge's ancestors included six U.S. senators, a secretary of state, a Civil War general, and a governor of Massachusetts.

Fallen Land is set during the end of the Civil War and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcWar and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcwar between Union and Confederate forces.

The critics describe That Anvil of Our Souls as the best in the series so far, saying that it is not only superbly researched but also well - written and will be of appeal to Civil War buffs and general readers Poyer's next novel is a Dan Lenson novel, The Threat, due to be released in November this year.