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Dixie is sampled in the film scores of a great many American feature films, often to signify Confederate troops and the American Civil War. For example, Max Steiner quotes the song in the opening scene of his late 1930s score to Gone with the Wind as a down-beat nostalgic instrumental to set the scene and Ken Burns makes use of instrumental ...
Dixie is the historical nickname for the states making up the Confederate States of America. [6] The song's opening stanza refers to one of George Stoneman's raids behind Confederate lines attacking the railroads of Danville, Virginia, at the end of the Civil War in 1865: Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
Geographically, Dixie usually means the cultural region of the Southern states. However, definitions of Dixie vary greatly. Dixie may include only the Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc.) or the states that seceded during the American Civil War. "Dixie" states in the modern sense usually refer to:
It is probable that they chose this pseudonym because the catalog number of the record would be 1861-D, 1861 being the year that the American Civil War began. The lyric "First to cross the Mason–Dixon line" featured in the opening verse of the song "I've Done it Again" (composers Marianne Faithfull / Barry Reynolds ) on Grace Jones ' 1981 ...
Settlement of the Oklahoma Territory began as a direct result of the Civil War. Southerners escaping Reconstruction, largely populated the southern and eastern regions of the state. The term "Little Dixie" was first used in reference to southeastern Oklahoma during the 20th century. Italian laborers began arriving in eastern Oklahoma in the 1870s.
Scott and I will discuss our findings and other issues about the surrender of York as part of the York County History Center-sponsored, activity-packed Civil War Day starting at 10 a.m., July 20 ...
Civil War scholar Allan Nevins argues that 1862 was the strategic high-water mark of the Confederacy. [171] The failures of the two invasions were attributed to the same irrecoverable shortcomings: lack of manpower at the front, lack of supplies including serviceable shoes, and exhaustion after long marches without adequate food. [ 172 ]
The Dixie Chicks Ron Wolfson/Getty Images The Chicks sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry when they publicly took a stand against George Bush — and changed the course of country ...