Confederate in a sentence

After more than a century, birthdays of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, along with a Confederate Memorial Day, would no longer be legal holidays in Florida under a bill approved by a Senate committee Tuesday.

Anti-racism protesters in Washington DC tear down statue of Confederate general Anti-racism protesters in Washington, D.C. have toppled a statue of a Confederate general and set it on fire.

It poses an interesting legal question because Confederate generals were not military members of the United States, they were military members of the Confederate States of America.

Mississippi state flag with Confederate battle symbol will be replaced with magnolia designLawmakers voted to remove the old Mississippi state flag and its Confederate battle emblem earlier this year.

As the Confederate Battle Flag continues to reemerge as a potent symbol of racism taken up by America’s far-right, American artist Sonya Clark thinks it’s time for the other confederate flag to take center-stage.

Both end up working against and with each other––Elle posing as a slave in a Confederate household and Malcolm posing as a Confederate soldier.

Jefferson Barracks Offers to Take Confederate MemorialAs the city of St. Louis looks to get rid of the Confederate Monument in Forest Park, there is a willing taker - the Civil War Museum at Jefferson Barracks Park.

Lee, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, has spoken out about racial injustice, condemned white supremacy and advocated for the removal of Confederate monuments.

The purpose of the Sons of Confederate Veterans 1861-1865 is to honor and preserve the history, legacy, honor, and patriotism of the Confederate soldier and the Southern Cause.

After the confederate was separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electroshock generator, which played prerecorded sounds for each shock level.

Although the fighting on the southern flank produced roughly equal casualties (about 4,000 Confederate, 5,000 Union), the northern flank was completely lopsided, with about eight Union casualties for each Confederate.

Booth had hoped that the assassinations would create sufficient chaos within the Union that the Confederate government could reorganize and continue the war if one Confederate army remained in the field or, that failing, to avenge the South's defeat.

Confederate guns on Hazel Grove were joined by 20 more on the Plank Road to duel effectively with the Union guns on neighboring Fairview Hill, causing the Federals to withdraw as ammunition ran low and Confederate infantrymen picked off the gun crews.

Confederate mail delivery had ceased with the collapse of the Confederate government, he explained, so the Garretts were unaware of Lincoln's assassination.

Confederate response The initial Confederate response was one of expected outrage.

Coulter, "Confederate States of America", pp. 25, 27 The Permanent Constitution provided for a President of the Confederate States of America, elected to serve a six-year term but without the possibility of re-election.

Coulter, The Confederate States of America, p. 306. Confederate units harassed them throughout the war years by laying torpedo mines and loosing barrages from shoreline batteries.

Coulter, The Confederate States of America, p. 343 A council of war by the victorious Confederate generals decided not to advance against larger numbers of fresh Federal troops in defensive positions.

During the Battle of Seven Pines he marched his men in the wrong direction down the wrong road, causing congestion and confusion with other Confederate units, diluting the effect of the massive Confederate counterattack against McClellan.

He expanded his war powers, and imposed a blockade on all the Confederate shipping ports, disbursed funds before appropriation by Congress, and after suspending habeas corpus, arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers.