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Thye Nancy Harts
“As they met the Union force on the West Point road, Morgan formed her women into a line of battle. Colonel LaGrange did not mention the incident in his official report, but members of the Nancy Harts later recalled that a captured Confederate major intervened to prevent bloodshed. Bringing LaGrange forward, he introduced him to…
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Delity Powell Kelly
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=10425149&page=gr Civil War Figure. When she was only 10, her father enlisted to serve in the Civil War, and her mother went along as a nurse. Delity was an only child at the time, so she went along with her mother and also served as a nurse, tending to injured troops. She was captured and…
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Jeff Davis a Murderer?
Someone from Yahoo with whom I have exchanged some messages asked if I heard that Jefferson Davis had murdered a man during the War. I said I had never heard that and he sent me the following: I was in the West Palm Beach, Florida Round table for about 8 years. We had over 80…
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Lincoln Quote
I was in an exchange of message on another board with some real uneducated folks. Their basic argument is that the Confederate ware traitors and they wanted to destory our country (The United States). At this time none of there have been able to prove treason, or even the act of secession was illegal in…
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Confederate History Month 2010—To Brave to die, A Yankee officer
I have had this letter for several years, I cannot remember who sent it to me or who transcribed it. I beleive “Ward” may be kin to me since we are both from the same part of Mississippi and I am guessing a Ward relative sent this to me. I have not proved kinship yet.…
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Confederate History Month 2010– My response
My response to the article posted at http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/14/hale.confederate.history.race/ GP ********************************************************** Ms. Hale, I am appalled that you think Confederate History Month only means the four years the Confederate army fought for freedom and independence against an invading, overwhelming army of men and material . It means much more than that. It means studying the causes…
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Confederate History Month –Lysander Spooner quote
The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals. No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently…
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Why we remember CHM
I’d like to tell you about the greatest conflict our nation ever fought, the War Between the States. Between 4 and 5 million men saw service in this war, and 625,000 men died during its brutal course. More men died during the conflict than in all of our nations wars combined, from the Revolution to…
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Can anyone help with Lincoln quote?
At one time either prior to his inauguration or not long afterward, Lincoln spoke of war with the South and called it “civil war”. I am looking for one (or more) quotes with the source of same in which Lincoln uses that term for an impending (or actual) war between the federal government and the…
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A Quote about R. E. Lee
“Robert E. Lee was the son of a general in the Revolution. Two of his uncles signed the Declaration of Independence, one of whom was also a member of the convention that drafted the Constitution. Lee was married to the granddaughter of George Washington’s adopted son. Lee was only one of many civil and military…