Across the top two thirds of the painting is the futile advance by the Confederate forces.
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Had they done so, the initial Confederate assault would not have been so deadly.
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That was impossible without at least some of the former Confederate states joining in this ratification.
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Early Confederate victories at Bull Run in 1861 and 1862 and elsewhere forced Lincoln's hand.
That is more or less enough to explain why some people find the Confederate flag offensive.
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In the U.S. South, those flags are now more likely to be American flags than Confederate flags.
The amendment's framers clearly figured that enforcement would focus on the former Confederate states, Mr. Verrilli said.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation formally freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
As a Confederate soldier observed, death "reigned with universal sway, " ruling homes and lives, demanding attention and response.
They cited an arcane provision in Virginia law that prohibits placing Union markings or monuments on Confederate memorials.
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When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75, 000 volunteers.
The Americans don't seem to mind that the Confederate Army wore the color.
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Even in the eyes of confederate soldiers, he saw the face of God.
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Confederate now offers clientele the option of customizing a bike online so that it better fits the buyer's height and weight.
In this rolling farmland on the night of Nov. 29, 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee let Union forces slip past.
There's also a Confederate national flag and various Imperial Russian, Prussian and German parade helmets, rank caps, medals, insignia and uniforms.
The viewer is facing the Union line, a perspective that Rothermel thought was important in depicting the Union's repulse of Confederate forces.
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Here was the first important Union victory in the four-year war, when in 1862 Union forces broke the Confederate stronghold in eastern Kentucky.
In 1862, the siege of the Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, began when Union naval forces took up position off of the city.
The Census survey found on average slightly higher reports of voting among African-American voters than among whites in former Confederate states, 67% to 62%.
In 1862, the Confederate garrison of Fort Pulaski at Tybee Island, Georgia, was taken after a 30-hour siege, ending the era of masonry fortifications.
The Monitor, sailed by the northern Union side, fought the southern Confederate battleship Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862.
The next day, angry at his mistake, Confederate Commander John Bell Hood hurled 20, 000 men at the Union army, by then entrenched in nearby Franklin.
And then a Confederate officer, surveying the Union line spotted it.
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Are you the great-great-great grandson or granddaughter of a Confederate soldier?
The controversy over the Confederate flag in 2000 and the subsequent economic boycott by the NAACP drew national attention to racial tensions in South Carolina.
One hundred fifty years ago Monday, on September 17, 1862, the Union army commanded by Major General George McClellan met a Confederate force under Robert E.
When it went into effect on January 1, 1863 -- 100 days later -- the Proclamation freed all those held as slaves in the Confederate states.
By the end of the war, a third to a half of the Confederate army had deserted, and more than 300, 000 Southern whites were fighting for the Union.
What Confederate offers, Mr. Jacobs said, is an object that will last a lifetime actually, several lifetimes, an indestructible heirloom, timeless and indefatigable and so, in its way, immortal.
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