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Apparently, one of the films being showed at the Sundance festival is 'CSA: The Confederate States of America.' The premise is that the CSA won the war, and this is a modern documentary from that worl
...won. It has been 138 years going on 139. If Right did not triumph, then Might did. So be it. Why can't the Neo-Confederates simply accept a fact of history and go on from there?
Bob Kolker...
...he rebels, Richmond is about 1.5 hours drive away (depending on how much you're willing to speed!). It has the Confederate White House and a number of ACW-related sites.
A few of my favorite sites: ...
... that name before the war or was it a place that got its name from something that happened during the war? The Confederates were in that that location and held off an attack by a Union division....
Given that it's Confederate it could probably be either. Wish I could read the writing on the back. It's almost certainly a coat button.
I'm leery of that stuff on E-bay. Always seems to be one 'ori
anybody have a full list of the Army posts named after Confederate Officers? And anyone have any clue as to why they never named one after Longstreet (other than the tired argument about his 'failures
...other, and have to be destroyed. This is _exactly_ what Davis predicted for blacks in America. Speaking to the Confederate Congress in January 1863, Davis said the EP was
a measure by which several ...
It just struck me. The Confederates put together some damned clever engines of war, all the more notable by their lack of industrial and mechanical resourse. We have read in this NG about Albamarle an
This book revew was written by Cincinnati CWRT member Tom Breiner, and is posted with his permission.
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862, by Joseph
Besides Ft. McPherson at Atlanta is any other Army Post in the former Confederate States named for a Union Civil War general.?
... discussing Pickett's Charge. During the talk, the Ranger mentioned a story that went something like this.
A Confederate skirmisher near the Bliss Farm stood up and yelled toward his Northern counte...
It appears that all Confederate generals wore three stars on their collar, sometimes a large star in the center with a smaller star on each side and sometimes with three equally sized stars. Is this t
I would appreciate it if anyone could supply information on the Confederate raid on St Albans, Vermont. The raiders crossed the border from Canada. Was the US gov't aware of Confederated agent operati
...between a right of States to secede, on the one hand, and support for the South's actions, on the other.
The Confederates violated libertarian principles even before Fort Sumter. The garrison at the...
... imagine that today!
The fascination can be about the contradiction between the official story about how the Confederate States of America supposedly never existed as a foreign country, when she cle...
I have been comparing our fist ten amendments with the Confederate Constitution. Our Bill of Rights appears to have been incorporated into the Confederacy's Constitution. I find this to be an interest
... of Huntsville in 1862, placed prominent local citizens aboard his army trains to discourage sniper attacks by Confederates. Can anyone confirm this, or cite a source for further info? Thanks... Gary ...
Last Days of the Confederate Government
(EXCERPT) Greystone's American History Store Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)
Davis, William, Director, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Center for C
... C. Means¹ Loudoun Rangers independent Virginia cavalry company. Union Colonel Dixon S. Miles reported that Confederate casualties included ³1 negro soldier² and said that the attackers inclu...
This should get some good debate goin'. :)
Public Library to Celebrate Black Confederate History By Michael L. Betsch CNSNews.com Staff Writer February 10, 2003
(CNSNews.com) - As part of Black Hi
...is started in another group with a discussion about a doomed Confederacy where I suggested a 'what if' where a Confederate Gerard Bull develops a cannon capable of launching a rocket assisted shell wi...
... be honored to hear comment via either my e mail address or NG.
'Here Come Those Damn Green Flags Again!!!!' Confederate general 'Stonewall' Jackson at The Battle of Malvern Hill upon yet another ch...
...ksburg. Now question is this, in the last movie of Ted Turners Civil War Trilogy 'The Last Full Measure' which Confederate General and at which battle will make the third and final apology for Slavery...
Hi, I need a little help. I am a civil war buff and in my house I have Confederate flags on certain things, but when people come over they don't understand the flag like I do. Can somebody give me the
... remarked that Pillow need not have bothered - Grant would have turned him loose, preferring him in command of Confederate troops than as a prisoner.)
Once the fort was surrounded, it seemed to the ...
...nclusion of this open, direct, violent, and prolonged warfare, levied by the CSA against the USA, not a sinlge Confederate was convicted of treason. Not one.
Treason by the Confederates? Hardly. The...
...hink Longstreet needs any sort of rehabilitation.
seems that Longstreet was the only senior commander on the Confederate side with his stick on the ice (to use my favourite Red Greenism) at Chickama...
I know that the Confederates tended to named battles after towns, junctions or crossroads and the Federals named battles after geographic features such as streams or hills. Examples are:
Federal: Bu
...about six unmarked graves in my family cemetery that I would like to investigate. I believe they are Union and Confederate. There is no marker but my Grandfather pointed them out to me many years ago ...
... of the day is...'Every question as 2 sides '....... by me. LOL
'Here Come Those Damn Green Flags Again!!!!' Confederate general 'Stonewall' Jackson at The Battle of Malvern Hill upon yet another ch...
Perhaps you all could enlighten me about all the slave insurrections that took place in the Confederate States.
I could not find one example. With so many slavemasters away in the Army, why did any
There is a story about a Confederate soldier's body that was shipped to Gray, Maine, by mistake. According to the story there was no way to find out where the body should have been shipped, so the lad
...of me figure the reason for it. Any debate will be appreciated.
'Here Come Those Damn Green Flags Again!!!!' Confederate general 'Stonewall' Jackson at The Battle of Malvern Hill upon yet another ch...
... General McClellan was either 'a traitor or a coward' because he refused to press his large advantage over the Confederates in the Peninsular Campaign. For example, Burns claims that McClellan held a ...
...ackup disk. Anyway, can someone provide me with the text of the Oath of Loyalty required from:
1. A captured Confederate soldier, for parole 2. A civilian, resident of a Confederate state occupied b...
...sion' is a common mis-spelling of 'secession' but was it also used in the context of the ACW, as in having the Confederate government suceed (or follow) the Federal one?
(The question stems from a w...
Really? I would think that the Confederates had a shorter line of supply, being that the battle was on their 'home court'.
I'm new to this group, and I'll be posting shortly on the Black Confederates thread, but thought I'd let ya'll know a little bit about me first. I started studying the War Between The States in 1963 (
...ommand. And for this reason looked for alternatives.
If he had managed to take Tennesse, then what would the Confederate gains and future aspects on the war be? Could he cut Shermans supply line fro...
...rus )'...Why did you have to go,... I always knew..'
The recording I heard was accompanied by percussion and Confederate style...
...that the seceded states could not win a war on the battlefield. .
He also forgave the so called newly formed Confederate States of America for seizing federal property located within their boundarie...
What happened to Confederate regimental, and other unit, standards / flags that were captured in the war or surrendered at the end? The photos of the ones in books almost always hvae union capture inv
... same emblem on it?
NOTE: Some of these rifles are found stamped 'OHIO' on the stock.
http://home.att.net/~confederate/eagle.jpg
Thank you,
John Gross...
...le military force on that property, the United States committed an overt and unprovoked act of war against the Confederate States of America. It is clear that the CSA fired on Sumter in self-defense. ...
Did a Confederate officer's tent have flaps? Could these be closed to make the tent itself closed? James F. Chumbley
...if it were true, it would provide some basis for the United States to supress the independence movement of the Confederates. That basis, of course, would be that the majority of the citizens in the Un...
Does anyone know of a good reference on the history of Iowans who served in Confederate units? Thank you.
I am trying to reconcile two apparently contradictory views of the Confederate war ship the CSS Georgia. My impression has always been she was built in 1862 as a merchant ship, and bought by the CSA i
For a writing project that I would like to make as accurate as possible, I would like to know what would be the rank of a hypothetical officer
...gated in Jefferson's Declarartion on the one hand, while simultaneously excoriating, as traitors, the Southern Confederates on the other hand. It is of course true that the Declaration is a political ...
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