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.

When recalling the incident for Eyes on the Prize, a 1987 public television series on the Civil Rights Movement, Parks said, " When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ' No, I'm not.

* Cinema and television about the American Civil War

An example would be during the Earth Alliance Civil War on the television series Babylon 5, whereby the loyalist forces used orbital planetary defense platforms to defend Earth from the separatist forces.

In 1975 The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast on British and US television and made both actor John Hurt and Crisp himself into stars.

When his autobiography was reprinted in 1975 after the success of the television version of The Naked Civil Servant, Gay News commented that the book should have been published posthumously ( Crisp commented that this was a polite way of them telling him to drop dead ).

In 2009, a television sequel to The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast.

A chorus of uniformed Guardia Civil officers replaced the Mounties from the original television performance.

On May 6, 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union's Sonoma County chapter honored Smothers with its Jack Green Civil Liberties Award for his work against television censorship and for speaking out for peace and civil liberties.

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 ).

President Johnson speaks to a television camera at the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

Starting from the late 1940s until the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared on American television, making guest appearances in drama programs, most notably in The Fifth Column for Buick Electra Playhouse / CBS in 1960, playing an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of fifth columnists operating behind the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s ( the program was adapted from a story by Ernest Hemingway and directed by John Frankenheimer ).

" Ralston said he then created the Civil War characters, the format, the story outline and nine drafts of the script that was the basis for the television series.

He quickly became a frequent fixture in small character roles in movies and television through the 1950s, having appeared in such programs as Frontier on NBC and the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost.

He made his television debut in the late 1980s in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996.

His first major success was in the 1985 television miniseries North and South, which was set during the American Civil War.

He guest starred on many television programs, including the syndicated drama of the American Civil War, Gray Ghost, and ABC's short-lived sitcom, The Bing Crosby Show in the 1964-1965 season.

According to the producers, the main fictional work that influenced Space: Above and Beyond was the 1974 science fiction novel The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, in addition to other fictional works such as the 1948 World War II biographic novel The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, the 1895 American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and the Iliad, and the 1962 television series " Combat !.

He appeared in many television programs, including the syndicated drama of the American Civil War, Gray Ghost.

Three additional segments were not allowed to air on American television, although all aired in England: A segment on a support group formed for executives involved in the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s ; an examination of the extreme anti-choice movement ; and re-enacting the 1992 Los Angeles riots using Civil War re-enactors.

At the beginning of the " Civil War " storyline, the New Warriors attempt to apprehend a group of supervillains in Stamford, Connecticut for their television reality show.

He is perhaps less well known for writing a little-seen television sitcom based in the British Civil Service, If It Moves, File It ( 1970 ), featuring amongst others John Bird, who now stars alongside in the satirical Bremner, Bird and Fortune.

* The Naked Civil Servant ( film ) is a 1975 television film based on the book