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Thomas W. Chittum is an American author, [1] military analyst [2] and former mercenary from New Jersey, now living in Washington state. [3] He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War . [ 4 ] Chittum also fought in the Rhodesian War and the Croatian War of Independence as a mercenary.
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [308]
USS Two Sisters was a small 54-ton captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.. Two Sisters was put into service as a gunboat and, when required, as a ship's tender, by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
The Soong sisters with Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing. In 1937, when the Second Sino-Japanese war broke out, all three of them got together after a 10-year separation in an effort to unite the Kuomintang and Communists against the Imperial Japanese army. Soong Ai-ling devoted herself to social work such as helping wounded soldiers, refugees and ...
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War is a 2022 book by Zhuqing Li (Chinese: ๆ็ซน้), published by W. W. Norton & Company. The author tells the story of her two aunts, who were separated on opposite sides after the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Cynthia Charlotte Moon (1828–1895) was born in Danville, Virginia, on August 10, 1828.She and her sister, Virginia Moon are best known for their role as Confederate spies during the American Civil War.