#Confederate army

[nando161mando]

WORTH THE WATCH!

Maybe America does need a White History month!

Amber Ruffin explains how slave patrols evolved into Militias, the Revolutionary Army, the Confederate Army, the KKK and the Police.

#BlackHistoryMonth #AmberRuffin #WhiteHistory #usa news #usa #america #slave patrols #chattel slavery #militias #revolutionary army #fuck the confederacy #confederate army #kkk #kkkops #kkkop #ku klux klan #police state #police #cops #cop #policebastards #american #amerika #amerikkka #class war #nazisploitation #sacha baron cohen accuses tiktok of ‘biggest antisemitism movement since the nazis’ #nazis #nazigate #nazi

[vox-anglosphere]

More soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other US wars combined

#US Civil War #American history #archival photos #casualties #US history #North vs South #Confederate army #1861-1865

[kemetic-dreams]

Meet Mary. She was Free, Educated and A Spy. Her Disguise… Confederate European House Slave!

Mary was the best as she was working right in The Confederate President’s home. She had a photographic mind. Everything Mary saw on the Rebel President’s desk, she could repeat word for word.

"Ellen Bond" was neither dim-witted, illiterate, nor a slave. In reality, she was a free, well-educated African-American woman by the name of Mary Elizabeth Bowser. And she was a Union spy working right under Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s nose.

For months during the most crucial period of the Civil War, as General Ulysses S. Grant maneuvered to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital, Mary supplied critical military intelligence to the Union army. In recognition of her contributions to the Union war effort, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1995.

Elizabeth was able to arrange for a friend to take Mary with her as a servant to help at social functions held by Varina Davis in the Confederate White House. Mary performed her servant role so well she was eventually taken on full time as, presumably, a slave hired out by her master.

As a spy, Mary enjoyed a significant advantage: invisibility. It’s not that she was unseeable, like H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man, but rather that as a black slave, she was unseen and unnoticed by the whites she served. Her entrance into the dining room to serve at table in no way affected the conversations Jefferson Davis might be having with visiting generals. When she went to his office to clean, it did not occur to the Confederate president that this seemingly ignorant and dull-witted African woman could have either the capacity or the interest to glean information from the papers he left lying on his desk.

In fact, Mary’s role went far beyond the norm. Whatever she read or heard she was able to remember and pass on word-for-word. That’s the testimony of Thomas McNiven, the official head of the Richmond spy ring. McNiven ran a bakery and made daily deliveries all around the city, including to the Confederate White House. This allowed Mary to regularly meet with him for a few minutes as he delivered his goods to the Davis household. Years later, in 1904, McNiven recalled those days to his daughter and her husband, who eventually recorded his story:

Mary was able to continue her espionage activities until January of 1865. Jefferson Davis had become aware that information was somehow being leaked, and suspicion apparently began to fall on Mary. She made the decision to flee Richmond and seems to have made her way to the North. One unsubstantiated account says that in her last act as a Union agent, she tried to burn down the Confederate White House, but was unsuccessful.

Sometime in the early 1850s, Mary was sent to Philadelphia, as Elizabeth had been, to be educated at a Quaker school for African Americans. In 1855, with Mary’s schooling complete, Elizabeth arranged for her to join a missionary community in Liberia. Mary, however, hated living in the African country, and by the spring of 1860 was back in Richmond with Elizabeth.

A year later, in April 1861, Mary was married to Wilson Bowser, a free African man. Interestingly, the ceremony, like her baptism, took place at St. John’s Episcopal. The wedding notice listed both Mary and Wilson as “colored servants to Mrs. E. L. Van Lew” (Elizabeth’s mother).

#mary #spy #confederate army #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #afrakans #africans #brown skin

[lokiravenwood]

So, I live in the North, family has always lived in the north since we came to this country. And I recently found out that my great grandfather great grandfather fought for the Union in the Civil War.

If I where to go south, how easy would it be to rile someone up by talking about the war down there?

#civil war #the civil wars #union army #confederate army #north vs south #winners vs losers #honestly i just think the whole hypothetical situation would be hilarious #but my fiance who is from florida says if i did that id get shot

[destalva25]

Edgar von Westphalen during the American Civil War

//rough sketch

During the last year of the Civil War, too many men with families were looking for assistance . A single man like Edgar had only two real choices , fight or leave.

#digital art #fan art #artwork #historical figures #art #american civil war #confederate army #confederate #edgar von westphalen #rkgk #rough sketch #sketch

[brandonraykirk]

Interview of Dr. Leonard Roberts, Part 2 (Summer 1982)

Dr. Leonard W. Roberts Provides Commentary about the Hatfield-McCoy Feud #Appalachia #history #feuds #HatfieldMcCoyFeud

Truda Williams McCoy’s The McCoys: Their Story (1976) is a classic book about the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Truda, a McCoy descendant born in 1902 who married a grandson of Ran’l McCoy, collected her stories directly from feud participants and close family members prior to and during the 1930s. Truda was unable to publish her manuscript, but after her death in 1974 Dr. Leonard W. Roberts located and…

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#Appalachia #Bill Staton #civil war #Confederate Army #Dr. Leonard W. Roberts #Harmon McCoy #history #Kentucky #Lexington #Paris McCoy #Randolph McCoy #Squirrel Huntin&039; Sam McCoy #Truda McCoy #Union Army

[oldpoet56]

A Few Things To Consider ( #819 )

A Few Things To Consider ( #819 ) ( A few parables for the amusement and the entertainment of my family, friends and family ) 1.) Do not be like Tucker Carlson, for he is a walking breathing lie. If we are a liar we are Hell bound, it seems that in his case just like many at Fox’s propaganda channel ratings are more important to them than burning. 3.) Ones who fear death are the ones that are…

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#Confederate Army #lies #proverbs #wisdom

[oldtvlover]

Never mind, tonight then Love's Savage Fury from 1979! A set back to the Civil War. Cast: Jennifer O'Neill - Laurel Taggart Perry King - Col. Zachary Willis Raymond Burr - Lyle Taggart, Sr. Robert Reed - Commander Marston Connie Stevens - Dolby Ed Lauter - Sgt. Weed and many more

Story: Shortly before and during the Civil War, a Southern family has treasured gold for the Confederacy. Father and son Taggart are getting killed as the Union Army takes over the area. Laurel, the sole survivor of the family, is getting led to a prison where she has to take care of wounded soldiers. Yet as a good looking, presumably Confederate soldier named Zachary Willis enters her life, she wants to have more - love and be with him. Still, she also has to face some losses. After some time, Laurel helps her great love escape, not knowing that this was planned to show Zach the way to the hidden gold. Just then he tells her the truth and that he's an Union Colonel, and naturally she feels betrayed but he's left his gun behind. However, the end of the Civil War comes quicker than expected and both can admit to be in love. *sniff* 

Note: This movie felt kinda like a copy of "Gone with the wind" or a prediction for "North & South" several years later.

#love's savage fury #1979 #perry king #jennifer o'neill #raymond burr #robert reed #connie stevens #ed lauter #civil war #treasure #north vs south #union army #confederate army #love #gone with the wind #north & south

[pczick]

Remembering the Brave Heroes

Honoring a Hero - #MemorialDayWeekend

Kindle Unlimited, Paperback, and Audible My great-grandfather, Harmon Camburn, enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 two weeks after the start of the Civil War. He was nineteen. His infantry unit, 2nd Michigan, fought in several major battles during the horrific war. His final and nearly fatal active participation in the war occurred on November 24, 1863. His unit had been assigned to secure the…

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#Civil War #Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier #Confederate army #Confederate prisoner of war #heroes #Knoxville #Memorial Day #Union army #Union Soldier

[gaypirate420]

Modern case of mass hysteria:

The Twilight fandom collectively pretending Jasper Hale isn't canonically a fucking confederate.

#the whiplash I felt on that scene though #'battle scars' me: in love #'it's what the CONFEDERATE army gave me' me: absolutely flabbergasted #the twilight saga #jasper whitlock #jasper hale #jasper whitlock hale #yes I am delusional #i will never accept the true #friendship ended with canon Jasper fanon Jasper is my new best friend #jasper whitlock x reader #jasper hale x male reader #jasper hale x reader #effervescent

[fictionadventurer]

Any Civil War history from the Confederate perspective (especially early in the war) is always insane from a modern perspective, because no matter what complexities or patriotic feelings they try to bring up, it eventually always boils down to

Confederate: Abraham Lincoln is ACTUAL SATAN!

Me: Okay, that's a pretty serious charge. What makes you say that?

Them: He wants to free the slaves!

Me:

Me:

Me: ....that's it?

Them: What do you mean??

Me: I just thought maybe there'd be something else. Something actually evil.

Them: Isn't that enough??

Me: To put this mildly...no.

Rose Greenhow: He looks like an ape and doesn't know which wine to drink at dinner.

Me: That's just mean and you're a snob. It doesn't mean he's evil. Isn't there anything else?

Them:

Them:

Them: Oh, I got it! He's a tyrant who won't let us secede!

Me: Okay, but why did you want to secede?

Them: Because Lincoln's an evil tyrant who wants to free the slaves!

At which point I throw my hands up in despair, baffled at the extreme cultural and moral gulf.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #for context this mental conversation is happening while i listen to the confederate spy sections of my audiobook #i keep waiting to hear another reason for their hatred and it never comes #later on in the war it makes sense because he's been in charge of the enemy army for a long time #but early on they got nothing but stuff they started #this doesn't even get into the irony of how he bent over backward not to free the slaves to keep the union together #but that's an entirely different and morally grayer conversation

[fuckmeyer]

María is a bad bitch queen supreme with a simple dream of reclaiming her land Volturi-style after her human life was tragically cut short by a Texan who had invaded Mexico to create his own vampire Golden Corral. RESPECT HER OR PERISH

#LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HER SHE IS WONDERFUL I LOVE HER #ALSO she's a total softie emotional lil angel who wouldn't have felt forced to take power if her entire coven hadn't been slaughtered #but after YEARS of losses - her human fam & her vamp fam & her HOME - @ the hands of vampires & white colonizers #she got addicted to power & victory! what's a girl supposed to do honestly????? #& LET'S NOT FORGET she & Jasper enabled each other to seek victory bc before they met THEY WERE BOTH LOSERS. #like #i'm just saying she is just as powerful as the Volturi #with a knack for identifying talents in humans #who used the SAME tricks as the Voturi #who was influenced to a degree by Jasper to get greedy bc they were stronger together & loved winning for a change #(we love fucked up relationship 'i can make them worse' dynamics ok) #AND who - & i really can't stress this enough - is only in this damn war because she had everything stolen from her & wanted revenge #yet somehow she gets a lot of flak because she 'manipulated' (not true) and 'abused' (also not true) Jasper?????? the Confederate????????? #just remember #without María jasper would have died in a union-army POW camp eating the fleas off his own clothes #FAX FAX FAX

[pwlanier]

B25 landed at our little airport earlier today.

#b25mitchell #warbird #bomber #world war two #air force #army air corps #confederate Air Force

[illustratus]

SWISS ON THE MARCH

#swiss #army #march #knight #soldiers #armour #switzerland #history #europe #european #medieval #middle ages #swiss confederation #old swiss confederacy #swiss confederate army #knights #burgundian wars

[a-lil-strawberry]

I love twilight but why'd she have to make it racist tho

#twilight #like why did she have to include that jasper was in the confederate army #there was no reason for that #plus idek how bad all the native stuff is cuz i don't have that perspective

[brandonraykirk]

Civil War Horse Theft Case: George Scaggs v. Amos Williamson (1866)

Civil War Horse Theft Case in #WV (1866) #Appalachia #CivilWar #history

Circuit Court Logan County George Scaggs et al v. Amos Williamson And the said defendant George Scaggs by Ferguson _ Samuels his attorney for plea says that at the time of the committing of the said supposed grievances in the said plaintiff’s declaration mentioned a state of actual war existed between the United States of America and the so called Confederate States of America, and that the…

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#Amos Williamson #Ann Brumfield #Appalachia #civil war #Confederate Army #county clerk #Curtis Ballard #Felix McConahoy #George Scaggs #history #James M. Duncan #Logan County #Paris Brumfield #Robert Thompson #Tolbert Ferrell #Vincent A. Witcher #West Virginia