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Confederate and Memorial
* Confederate Memorial Day ( US: Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Texas )- April 26
Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.
* Confederate Memorial Day ( States of Florida and Georgia )
* Confederate Memorial Day ( Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee )
* Confederate Memorial Day ( North Carolina and South Carolina )
* 1915 The Confederate Memorial Monument is placed on the courthouse grounds in Goldthwaite.
* Town Square Confederate Memorial Monument
View towards the east side of the square showing the Confederate Memorial and the highway leading to Commerce, Georgia. In the city the population was spread out with 28. 1 % under the age of 18, 8. 0 % from 18 to 24, 30. 1 % from 25 to 44, 21. 4 % from 45 to 64, and 12. 5 % who were 65 years of age or older.
The decision of a group of ladies to decorate the Union and Confederate graves with flowers together on April 25, 1866, is an early example of what became Memorial Day.
On Confederate Memorial Day each year, the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy places flowers at the statue of a Confederate soldier which is prominent in the front of the historic Pittsylvania County Court House.
It is also home to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind and the nation's First Confederate Memorial in Indian Mound Cemetery.
In this same period, such organizations as the Sons of the American Revolution ( SAR ), the Colonial Dames of America, the Mary Washington Memorial Society, Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sons of Confederate Veterans were also founded.
The UDC sued Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee over its 2002 plan to change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, a student dormitory.
Its condition was that the building would be named Confederate Memorial Hall and have two floors reserved for women descendants of Confederate veterans.
The group has historically held meetings with veterans, widows and historians of the Civil War, observed Confederate Memorial Days, decorated graves, sponsored scholarships and published pamphlets and catechisms presenting the " Southern version " of the Civil War.
Confederate Memorial Day, also known as Confederate Decoration Day ( Tennessee ) and Confederate Heroes Day ( Texas ), is an official holiday and / or observance day in parts of the U. S. South as a day to honor those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
Nine states officially observe Confederate Memorial Day: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
On April 26, 1866, tens of thousands of Southern women commemorated the first Confederate Memorial Day.
Consequently, they selected dates later in the spring to hold their first Confederate Memorial Days.

Confederate and Hall
He spent ten days in the city, staying for a time at St. Lawrence Hall, a rendezvous for the Confederate Secret Service, and meeting several Confederate agents there.
The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly served in the Confederate States Navy.
In October 1862, a meeting was held in the Stalybridge Town Hall which passed a resolution blaming the Confederate States of America and their actions in the American Civil War for the cotton famine in Lancashire.
History, race, and civil rights issues came to the forefront on the campus in 2002, when the university decided to rename Confederate Memorial Hall, a residence hall on the Peabody campus as Memorial Hall.
The Davidson County Chancery Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2003, but the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in May 2005 that the university must pay damages based on the present value of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's contribution if the inscription bearing the name " Confederate Memorial Hall " was removed from the building or altered.
Confederate Hall, operated directly by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association or SMMA, is a museum that educates students and park guests on the geology and ecology of Stone Mountain as well as historical aspects of the area.
The few exceptions are in the former Confederate states ( except Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas ), as well as West Virginia, where the mainstream Grand Lodges do not yet recognize their Prince Hall counterparts.
He was the son of George Hall Moffett ( 1829 – 1875 ), who enlisted in the Confederate States army as a private, and was promoted for bravery on the field of battle, eventually attaining the rank of Captain and adjutant-general, Hagood's Brigade, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Volunteers.
* Hall, Kermit L in The Confederate Governors.
Additionally, Gee's 2002 announcement that the administration was going to rename " Confederate Memorial Hall " without the word Confederate evoked a series of lawsuits.
Museums include the National World War II Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Louisiana Children's Museum, the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center and Confederate Memorial Hall.
Total casualties for the campaign ( All three engagements at Kinston, White Hall, and Goldsboro ) were: Federal 577 ( 90 killed, 478 wounded and 9 missing / captured ) Confederate casualties were reported at 738 ( 71 killed, 268 wounded and 400 missing / captured )
* Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall
* Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall
Circling to the northeast, Hall encountered Confederate Brig.
Hall conducted a perimeter defense and withstood all Confederate attacks, which lasted till after 2: 00 p. m. Morgan continued to bombard the Union force until 4: 30 p. m., when he broke off the engagement, after learning that Union reinforcements were in route from Murfreesboro.
Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, was the home of four generations of the Lee family of Virginia, including two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it was the birthplace of Robert Edward Lee ( 1807 – 70 ), who became the Confederate General-in-chief during the American Civil War, and then became the president of Washington College, which later became Washington and Lee University.
Barringer's Confederates, the 1st and 2d North Carolina Volunteer Cavalry Regiments with a single artillery piece, with the 5th North Carolina Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in reserve, counterattacked the 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of Wells's brigade, commanded by Maj. James Bliss, as they reached the Namozine Church After sharp fighting, the Confederate cavalry were turned away by the 8th New York Cavalry and reinforcements from the 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Col. John J. Coppinger ' and the 1st Vermont Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Lt. Col. Josiah Hall.

Confederate and located
President Lincoln was determined to take the strategic Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg, located on the Mississippi River.
The Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly in the Virginia State Capitol, with the Confederacy's executive mansion, the " White House of the Confederacy ", located two blocks away.
In 1861, the hamlet of Town Line located in the Town of Lancaster, voted 85 to 40 to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States of America ; it sent five soldiers for the Confederate Army, and did not officially rejoin the Union until January 1946.
The graves of more than 90 Confederate soldiers killed in the battle are also located in this cemetery.
Obelisk commemorating Bastrop County soldiers in the army of the Confederate States of America is located on the courthouse grounds.
During the American Civil War, Moratock Iron Furnace located near Danbury served as a foundry for the Confederate Army.
Early in the American Civil War, the Confederate Army established Fort de Russey on the strategically located bluffs across the river from Belmont, Missouri.
The unincorporated communities of Martinez ( formerly Lulaville, named after a Cuban doctor ) and Evans ( possibly named after Confederate General Clement A. Evans ) became the population centers of the county, since they were located nearest to Augusta.
Also located near this community, there still stands an artillery site ( now called the " Confederate Breast Works "), which was manned by the Confederacy to guard against Union movements along the Nolan Trace during the Civil War. Vernon Parish Map, 1895.
428 poorly marked graves were exhumed in 1905 by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery located in Cabot on Rye Drive, just off Cherry Road between Campground and Mount Carmel Roads.
Union Camp Joe Anderson, located northwest of Hopkinsville, was established in 1862 after the Confederate forces had retreated to Tennessee.
It is an old town located close to the Land Between the Lakes, a popular recreation area, and was a base of Union and Confederate operations in the American Civil War.
Fort Beauregard, which is located a fourth of a mile outside the village, was a Confederate stronghold during the American Civil War.
On July 29, 1863, at Goodrich's Landing south of Lake Providence, Confederate partisan Rangers surprised two companies of black troops in a small fort located on an Indian mound ; they seized 200 prisoners.
* All Saints ' Episcopal School was a local boarding school located on Confederate Avenue, which closed in 2006 after 98 years in operation.
Along the way, Colonel Phillips sent out an advance of about 350 men toward Boggy Depot, a large Confederate supply base located on the Texas Road with the intention of capturing the outpost.
The town is located three miles west of the restored historic village of Appomattox Court House ( a. k. a. Clover Hill ), the site of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, essentially ending the American Civil War.
In May 1864, Union wounded and Confederate prisoners from the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House were transported through the area to the wharves at Belle Plain on Potomac Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, located east of Falmouth.
The grave of Julia Neale Jackson, mother of Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson, is located in Westlake Cemetery in Ansted.
The plantation that Jackson named Hermitage was ideally located from the Cumberland and Stones rivers ; the land was originally settled by Robert Hays, grandfather to legendary Texas Ranger, John Coffee Hays and Confederate General, Harry Thompson Hays in 1780.
Forrest loaded his cavalry on board and along with the captured transport " Venus " which had been fitted with Confederate cannons, proceeded toward Johnsonville, TN to attack the Federal supply depot located there.

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