But so were those of the South. And the Confederacy's supply problems were even greater than those of the Union.
VOA: special.2009.08.27
Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy.
谁能告诉我现代哪一位美国总统,能够在失去南方诸州支持后,还能赢得总统大选的
There's a very good reason Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy in 1860.
杰斐逊·戴维斯之所以能在1860年,成为南部邦联总统
The way was now open for the armies of the North to march into the heart of the Confederacy.
VOA: special.2009.11.26
Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."
亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"
For the most part, the Confederacy depended on privately owned ships to get goods in and out of the South.
VOA: special.2009.09.10
Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.
上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石
Union troops quickly moved into Richmond.Then they raised the United States flag over the once proud capital of the Confederacy.
VOA: special.2009.12.17
He said he wanted to show the people of the Confederacy that their government could not protect them.
VOA: special.2009.12.03
They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.
VOA: special.2009.09.03
There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.
VOA: special.2009.08.06
The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.
VOA: special.2010.05.10
Wherever Grant went, former soldiers waited to shake the hand of the man who had led them to victory against the Confederacy.
VOA: special.2010.02.11
In addition to these victories, the Confederacy claimed responsibility for several new naval technologies during the Civil War.
VOA: special.2009.09.10
And it sank,too. The Confederacy also developed very effective underwater explosive devices for use in the harbors.
VOA: special.2009.09.10
The surrender of the main army of the Confederacy gives hope of a righteous and speedy peace.
VOA: special.2009.12.31
In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting.
VOA: special.2009.12.10
Surrender finally came for General Robert E.Lee and the Confederacy he had served as a great soldier.
VOA: special.2009.12.24
President Abraham Lincoln is fighting to keep the Southern states of the Confederacy from leaving the Union.
VOA: special.2010.05.10
Then,he permitted former officials of the confederacy to run for office in their states' new elections.
VOA: special.2010.01.21
Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy.
VOA: special.2010.01.14
For several days,it seemed that all these states would secede and join the southern confederacy.
VOA: special.2009.08.13
The North had not won a decisive victory in Virginia, the heart of the Confederacy.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"
VOA: special.2009.11.19
But with the Confederacy being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.
VOA: special.2010.01.07
This would split the states of the Confederacy and might end its very existence.
VOA: special.2009.10.22
One was John Surratt. Like Booth,he supported the southern Confederacy during the Civil War.
VOA: special.2010.01.07
The government of the Confederacy would have to go with him or be captured.
VOA: special.2009.12.17
Even with its victories and technologies,however, the Confederacy could not stop the Union navy.
VOA: special.2009.09.10
Supporters of the Confederacy had damaged trains,rail lines and bridges between the two cities.
VOA: special.2009.08.20
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