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Confederate and Republic
An adjacent marker was erected by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of The Republic of Texas and the Lee, Roberts, and Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederate States of America.
Since European settlement, Baton Rouge has been governed by France, Britain, Spain, Louisiana, the Florida Republic, the Confederate States, and the United States.
Hood ( Confederate ); Ulysses S. Grant ( Union ) was named to Fort Jones, but was Absent Without Leave for whatever his tenure would have been ; George Crook ( Union ), who would arguable become one of the greatest leaders for the Grand Army of the Republic less than a decade later ; and George Pickett ( Confederate ).
On January 19, 1861, Georgia convention delegates passed the Ordinance of Secession, and the " Republic of Georgia " joined the Confederate States of America, to the accompaniment of wild celebration, bonfires, and illuminations on Milledgeville's Statehouse Square.
Counterpart successor states to our world's United States include: a ( truncated ) United States ; the Confederate States of America ; the Republic of Texas ; the Republic of California ; a Communist Manhattan Island commune ( with Karl Marx as a leading light ); British North America ( analogous to Canada, albeit slightly larger in this world ); Russian America ( Alaska ); and terra nullius.
The name refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.
He was the third-great-grandson of Isaac Van Zandt, a prominent leader of the Republic of Texas and second great-grandson of Khleber M. Van Zandt, Confederate Major and one of the founders of Fort Worth.
Smarting from two defeats at the hands of the Confederate States of America, which was allied with the United Kingdom and the French Third Republic, the United States of America has turned to an alliance with the strengthening German Empire.
The United Confederate Veterans, also known as the UCV, was a veteran's organization for former Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War, and was equivalent to the Grand Army of the Republic ( GAR ) which was the organization for Union veterans.
Prior to 1889, Confederate veterans had no national organization similar to the Grand Army of the Republic.
Flag of the Republic of Confederate Tribes RifFort of its success, Abdelkrim proclaimed in 1922 the Republic of Confederate Tribes of the Rif, a Berber embryonic state.
Walter Paye Lane ( February 18, 1817 – January 28, 1892 ) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who also served in the armies of the Republic of Texas and the United States of America.
Insurgencies have existed in many countries and regions, including the Philippines, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Northeast India, Yemen, Djibouti, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, the American colonies of Great Britain, and the Confederate States of America.
The park's name " Six Flags Over Texas " refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.
Large veterans organizations like the Grand Army of the Republic and United Confederate Veterans eventually also worked for the creation of federal and state homes to care for disabled or elderly veterans.
The " Republic " of Winston ( Winston County, Alabama ) was one of several places in the Confederate States of America where disaffection during the American Civil War was strong.
Great Seal of the Republic ( Confederate ), copy at the British Library
The " six flags " originally represented the six countries that have governed Texas: France, Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederate States of America, and the United States of America.

Confederate and Revolution
Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution and joined the Confederacy in the American Civil War, during which Richmond was made the Confederate capital and Virginia's northwestern counties separated to form the state of West Virginia.
The National Archives Building in downtown Washington holds record collections such as all existing federal census records, ships ' passenger lists, military unit records from the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War, records of the Confederate government, the Freedmen's Bureau records, and pension and land records.
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.
Irregularly convened assemblies during the English Revolution, such as Confederate Ireland ( 1641-49 ), were described as " provisional.
Benjamin McCulloch ( November 11, 1811 – March 7, 1862 ) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, a U. S. marshal, and a brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
Henry Eustace McCulloch ( December 6, 1816 – March 12, 1895 ) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, and a brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
Though outsiders often see neo-Confederacy as " rebellion ", the Neo-Confederates themselves generally believe that the federal government of the United States has strayed from its original intent, and that the Confederate States of America was both the lawful and logical successor of the original government which formed out of the American Revolution.
He fought in the Texas Revolution, and as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
He was the model for Confederate " Revolution " to secure independence for the American South.
Davis made many comparisons between the formation of the Continental Congress and the American Revolution and the formation of the Confederate States and the American Civil War, seeing them as being little different ethically or politically save that the former resulted in victory for the rebels and the latter in defeat.

Confederate and against
Gen. John Gibbon's brigade against a larger Confederate force, fighting it to a standstill.
His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their line eventually broke and they retreated back through the town of Gettysburg to the relative safety of Cemetery Hill south of town.
It was Doubleday's finest performance during the war, five hours leading 9, 500 men against ten Confederate brigades that numbered more than 16, 000.
His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A.
The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment " Attack-in-depth " assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Initially, he protested to the abbot and the representatives of the four sponsoring Confederate cantons ( Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz, and Glarus ) against the construction of the new abbey in Rorschach.
Grant, who was headquartered at Cairo, was given an open order by Union General John C. Frémont to make " demonstrations ", not including attack, against the Confederate Army at Belmont.
Grant gave generous terms ; Confederate troops surrendered their weapons and were allowed to return to their homes, with their mounts, on the condition that they would not take up arms against the United States.
* January 13 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Fort Fisher begins when United States forces launch a major amphibious assault against the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
* November 26 – American Civil War – Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee ( Meade's forces can not find any weaknesses in the Confederate lines and give up trying after 5 days ).
He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the " scorched earth " policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.
General Sherman took command of the 550 men and successfully defended against an attack of 3, 500 Confederate cavalry.
He fought a lengthy campaign of maneuver through mountainous terrain against Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee, attempting a direct assault only at the disastrous Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
Sherman's success in Georgia received ample coverage in the Northern press at a time when Grant seemed to be making little progress in his fight against Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
His army proceeded north through South Carolina against light resistance from the troops of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston.
The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.
Lincoln urged Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to advance against the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5 – 7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.

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