In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

Instead of this the 1930's witnessed a tragic economic depression, the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe, the wasting Civil War in Spain.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.

In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

The Secretary of War gave his assent after studying the history of the draft in the American Civil War as well as the British volunteer system in World War 1.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Even before the benches had dried, the Civil War veterans were straggling back to their places.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

California, on the other hand, operates under the Civil Discovery Act of 1986 ( a revision of an older 1957 act ), which is codified in the California Code of Civil Procedure.

California is the major " outlier " on deposition objections ; under the California Civil Discovery Act as enacted in 1957 and heavily revised in 1986, most objections must be given on the record at the deposition ( and must be specific as to the objectionable nature of the question or response ) or they are permanently waived.

On the Civil War Discovery Trail, three landmarks stand out.

# Civil War Discovery Trail-500 sites in 27 states-honors the sacrifices and hardships of the American Civil War.

Discovery of oil fields in western Pennsylvania in the late 1850s and the promise of increased industrial activity and economic growth after the end of the American Civil War combined to make the refining of crude oil seem an attractive business to Rockefeller.

In California state courts, discovery is governed by the Civil Discovery Act of 1986 ( Title 4 ( Sections 2016-2036 ) of the Code of Civil Procedure ), as subsequently amended.

* Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Depositions and Discovery

Electronic Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation: Is Rule 34 Up to the Task ?, 41 B. C. L.

* Civil War Discovery Trail website

Also, our Historic Homes and Landmarks Tour is part of the Kentucky's Civil War Heritage Trail and includes twenty-four listings.

The state park and the Winslow Trail are named after Captain John Winslow, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alabama in the English Channel in a famous Civil War sea battle.

* Estill Springs, Website, Franklin County * Civil War Trail through Estill Springs, Tennessee Back Roads

Regular units returned east to participate in the Civil War while militia units from Kansas and other states used Riley as a base from which to launch campaigns to show the flag and offer a degree of protection to trading caravans using the Santa Fe Trail.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

Washington served as a major trading point along the Southwest Trail, evolving into the Hempstead county seat and later the capitol of Arkansas from 1863 to 1865 when Little Rock was threatened during the Civil War.

His first novel, La piste du Dakota Dakota Trail, takes place in the United States after the end of the Civil War.

* two partially completed routes within the District of Columbia – the Fort Circle Parks Trail, part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, and a multi-use route between Georgetown and Oxon Cove Park, including areas along the Anacostia River.

His work set the stage for a mining boom in the area, where he invested in land along the Midland Trail in Fayette County in what became the new state of West Virginia in 1863 during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that it intends to include Shuttlesworth's burial site on the Civil Rights History Trail.

Used before and just after the Civil War, the Shawnee Trail gathered cattle from east and west of its main stem, which passed through Austin, Waco, and Dallas.

The western branch particularly remained the main cattle trail from Texas until the opening of the Chisholm Trail ( or Abilene Trail ) following the Civil War.

During the Civil War the Shawnee Trail was virtually unused for cattle drives.

The Winslow Trail and the state park on the Wilmot side are named after Captain John Winslow, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alabama in the English Channel in a famous Civil War sea battle.

It was the second of three battles in the Trail of Blood on Ice campaign for the control of Indian Territory during the American Civil War.

The Battle of Round Mountain was the first battle in the Trail of Blood on Ice campaign for the control of Indian Territory during the American Civil War and occurred on November 19, 1861.

Other park units protect the Glorieta Pass Battlefield, site of the American Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass, as well as a stretch of wagon ruts along the old Santa Fe Trail.

Montpelier is open to visitors every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas, with the following hours: January – March: 9: 00 a. m. to 4: 00 p. m, April – October: 9: 00 a. m. to 5: 00 p. m., November – December: 9: 00 a. m. to 4: 00 p. m. Montpelier also offers visitors the chance to explore the Gilmore Farm: A Freedman ’ s House, open daily ; a Hands-on-Restoration-Tent open from April – October ; Hands-on-Archaeology Lab and Kid-Sized Archaeology open daily ; Hands-on-Cooking offered April – October ; Civil War and Gilmore Farm Trail open daily ; and, the Archaeology Dig open April – October.

The plaza is one block south of the " Freedom Plaza " historical marker at stop number W. 7 of the Civil War to Civil Rights Downtown Heritage Trail at 13th and E Streets, NW.