Sentences with phrase «veteran of the civil war»

He's coaxed back to Africa by George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), an American and veteran of the Civil War who seeks to uncover what he believes is Belgium's introduction of slavery to the Congo.

My Son and I stayed at this hotel at the end of June for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War annual encampment (convention).

Wikipedia notes: «Memorial Day formerly occurred on May 30, and some, such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), advocate returning to this fixed date, although the significance of the date is tenuous.

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Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

They made heavy weather of the task mind, but a 2 - 1 victory ensured Villa's run without a win of four games came to an abrupt end, while it also helped to ease the pressure on the veteran, who caused a civil war within the terraces following his Anfield antics.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

A 99 - year - old World War II veteran who regretted skipping the chance to meet some of the nation's last Civil War veterans in 1940 is on a mission to visit all 50 states so people who've never met a WWII vet...

There were loads of the guys in RAR, old grey haired guys who were Spanish Civil War veterans who fought Oswald Mosley in the 40s.

Members of Nigerian Civil War Veterans of (1967 — 1970), under the auspicates of Carefirst for the Aged Welfare Development Association of Nigeria, CAWDAN, have called on President...

President Buhari's insistence that the unity of Nigeria is a sealed issue is a nationalistic wish and is no surprise coming from a veteran of (a) civil war fought to keep the country one.

His grandfather, Pa Ojo Kolade Odugade was a veteran of the mid-19th century Yoruba civil wars who migrated to Ibadan from Iresa where he first settled when he left Offa - Ile.

He left an indelible footprint in the sands of times, having served this country in different capacities as a teacher, civil servants, a Second World War veteran, a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a parliamentarian of note.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> A 99 - year - old World War II veteran who regretted skipping the chance to meet some of the nation's last Civil War veterans in 1940 is on a mission to visit all 50 states so people who've never met a WWII vet can finally meet one.

For data he used a National Institutes of Health — funded database of American Civil War veteran records: an informational treasure trove containing details like height and weight at time of conscription, daily roll calls of the sick and injured, periodic postwar checkups, census data, and, often, death certificates.

A young Civil War veteran named Jackson (Scott Eastwood) wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits.

«John Carter» delivers one of its precious few delights shortly after the hero, a Civil War veteran from Virginia, finds himself teleported to Mars.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

SYNOPSIS: In the Old West, former Civil War - veteran John Henry returns to his frontier hometown where he must repair a fractious relationship with his Reverend father, and face the demons of his past when a -LSB-...]

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Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who steal vampires» blood for its notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.

John Carter (PG - 13 for violence and intense action sequences) Screen adaptation of «A Princess of Mars,» Edgar Rice Burroughs» sci - fi novel about a Civil War Confederate veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who is magically transported to Mars where he rescues a desperate damsel in distress (Lynn Collins) while on the run from a horde of 12 - foot tall green creatures.

John Carter is a veteran of the American Civil War who's bitter and resentful of the sacrifices he had to make for his country.

John Ford was the last candidate imagined to tell the dark tale of a Civil War Veteran who exorcises his demons in violent revenge, but The Searchers inevitably became one of the true treasures of its genre.

Aidan Quinn stars as a Spanish Civil War veteran who takes a teaching job at an Irish reform school in 1939 and leaps to the defense of boys subjected to inhuman abuse by pitiless Catholic brothers.

Leaving her husband, Ellis (Jack Huston), an artist and wounded Spanish Civil War veteran, at home, Catrin plunges into the world of women's work, propaganda and showbiz, befriending a cynical colleague named Buckley (Sam Claflin).

Also known as Curse of Demon Mountain, this supernatural Western stars Joe Don Baker as a Civil War veteran searching for buried treasure on a supposedly cursed mountain.

The film opens with a carriage plodding along the road until it comes across an African - American Civil War Veteran, Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson, Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2016) whose horse has died and is towing three dead bodies to the city of Red Rock to collect the bounty for his bodies.

It's worth noting that George Washington Williams is a real life historical figure who was a Civil War veteran, and is maybe best known as the author of «History of the Negro Race in America,» widely considered the first objective history of African Americans.

Stewed from bits of Agatha Christie, David Mamet, and Sam Peckinpah, The Hateful Eight traps a cast of blowhards (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Civil War veteran, Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter known as «The Hangman,» and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a psychopathic gang member) in a blizzard - enveloped supply station.

Many of these policy advocates were veterans of the War on Poverty and the civil rights movement.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the deWar wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dewar veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

Pearl makes his main character (Marcus Manfield) a former machinist and Civil War veteran, which gives him a front - row seat for some of the biggest upheavals of the time.

Joined by her husband, a stubborn, driven Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of the hardships, some anticipated and some not, of living in such brutal isolation.

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We sat in plush chairs by a fireplace, and Witteveen told me about how he used Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to create an eBook from the handwritten memoir of Francis W. Redfern, a Civil War veteran from nearby St. Johns.

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

In 1999, Lê began working with a group of Vietnam War re-enactors in South Carolina, who, like the better - known Civil War re-enactors, restage battles, training, and daily life of soldiers, both Viet Cong and American G.I.s.. For two summers, with war veterans, their children, and military personnel who «missed out» on a combat tour to Vietnam, Lê participated in and photographed battles of the Vietnam War restaged on her adopted American soWar re-enactors in South Carolina, who, like the better - known Civil War re-enactors, restage battles, training, and daily life of soldiers, both Viet Cong and American G.I.s.. For two summers, with war veterans, their children, and military personnel who «missed out» on a combat tour to Vietnam, Lê participated in and photographed battles of the Vietnam War restaged on her adopted American soWar re-enactors, restage battles, training, and daily life of soldiers, both Viet Cong and American G.I.s.. For two summers, with war veterans, their children, and military personnel who «missed out» on a combat tour to Vietnam, Lê participated in and photographed battles of the Vietnam War restaged on her adopted American sowar veterans, their children, and military personnel who «missed out» on a combat tour to Vietnam, Lê participated in and photographed battles of the Vietnam War restaged on her adopted American soWar restaged on her adopted American soil.

The majority of works in the exhibition will be on loan from private collections, and will comprise important, large - scale paintings from his most memorable themes, including French Money, Vocabulary Lessons, Civil War Veterans, Camel cigarette packs, as well as portraits of his mother - in - law Berdie, his then wife Augusta, and the poet Frank O'Hara.

Corrales - Diaz, who received her doctorate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a dissertation titled «Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861 — 1915,» comes to the City of Seven Hills from Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she is both curator of the Johnson Collection and visiting scholar at Wofford and Converse Colleges.

In 1969 Andrews, a New York based artist reared in rural Georgia, Korean War veteran, activist in the Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam War, and feminist movement, undertook a major cycle of works, creating one major work per year for six years building up to the Bicentennial in 1976, each work emerging from dozens of smaller paintings and drawing studies.

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

The nearby Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park was established through the efforts of veterans from both sides after the Civil War, and remains the oldest and largest military park of its kind.

Posttraumatic stress disorder, once referred to as «shell shock» or battle fatigue, was first brought to public attention by war veterans after the Civil War in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiwar veterans after the Civil War in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiWar in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiWar I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartime.

The military, since the Civil War, have recorded PTSD symptoms of veterans who suffered emotional problems and were diagnosed with «soldier's heart».