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A statue of J.E.B. Stuart, the Confederate army officer, was removed on Tuesday from Monument Avenue in Richmond. It was the latest statue to be taken down since the mayor used emergency powers to ...
A lawsuit filed by the Columbus-based National Ranger Memorial Foundation to restore the name of a Confederate officer to the memorial and to the elite Army unit’s hall of fame at Fort Moore has been ...
A federal commission spent two years renaming nine military installations that had been named after Confederate soldiers.
Well worth a read by anyone interested in the soldier's eye view of the war. Note: The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer is also available in e-editions.
But if you put our negroes and white men into the army together ... and pundits pointed out the contradiction, with one Confederate officer raging that arming slaves would “contravene the ...
He proposed that the city issue a policy similar to the U.S. military’s policy preventing officers from displaying the Confederate flag on military property. Although the military’s guidance does not ...
On the eve of the war, the U.S. Army consisted of approximately 16,400 men, of whom about 1,100 were commissioned officers. Of these, some 25 percent resigned to join the Confederate army.
The order was distributed the day after the official surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox Court ... By the terms of the agreement, Officers and men can return to their homes and remain ...