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Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia , but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.
Brigadier general not confirmed: killed 8 days after appointment See incomplete appointments section in List of American Civil War Generals (Acting Confederate). Warner lists as a general; Eicher does not. Hawes, James Morrison: Brigadier general rank: March 5, 1862 nom: March 11, 1862 conf: March 13, 1862 re-conf: March 18, 1862 USMA, 1845.
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, American Civil War; Mary Johnston (1870–1936), novelist and women's rights advocate; David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate General, American Civil War; Mildred Callahan Jones (1943–2008), decorative flag businesswoman [53]
The school merged with Willington Academy in 1986 to become Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc. In 1913, Judge John Randolph Tucker named the Wade Hampton Census Area in Alaska to commemorate his father-in-law (it was renamed Kusilvak Census Area in 2015 to remove the blemish of having a place named for a slave-holding Confederate general). [22]
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting ...
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...