Word: appomattox
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...wasn't quite Appomattox, but the defiant - and to many, provocative - spirit of the Confederacy sustained critical injuries Wednesday when South Carolina state senators voted 36-7 to remove the flag from its perch atop the statehouse. A much-maligned compromise bill will replace the traditional Southern Cross with a smaller flag to be flown on the grounds of the Capitol - still highly visible, but, proponents of the bill hope, less likely to offend. Although the state House must pass the bill before Gov. Jim Hodges can sign it into law, many feel Wednesday's vote was the beginning...
...Richmond as a base to visit the last two tour stops: the Petersburg National Battlefield, where months of fighting led to the fall of Richmond, and Appomattox Court House, where Lee ultimately surrendered to Grant. Both are easy and worthwhile day trips from town--and a fitting way to end your tour...
...atonement White America must make for Slavery--and the Grand Apartheid which followed and lasted until 1965--a matter merely of white individuals apologizing to black individuals. It's readily apparent that Vanke needs to pretend that the dominion of the Confederacy ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox and was not soon thereafter re-constructed via a voluminous number of legislative and extra-legal acts, including the Plessy decision, of the White South and the White North. Still, it is rather breathtaking to come across a living historian who denies, albeit implicitly, that Slavery and its successor regime were...
Jackson lives in a small trailer home in Appomattox County, Virginia, with her disabled husband Virgil and their three children. For 17 years she has cooked and cleaned at a training center for mentally disabled adults; she brings home $1,000 a month, while Virgil's disability payments add $560. Credit cards are banned from the house; she is still ashamed of how they ran up a huge debt and had to declare bankruptcy. The creditors were so aggressive they came and demanded her engagement ring and Virgil's wedding band...
...South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, mustache bristling, charged up San Juan Hill and into American mythology. In Eisenhower, one of the century's greatest generals, America found one of its better Presidents...