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Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty

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Just a reminder that the Confederacy only existed for five years. . . . #whitesupremacy #confederacy #ConfederateFlag #confedrate #thecrueltyisthepoint #whitenationalist #itshatenotheritage #losersclub #losers #maga https://www.instagram.com/p/CBarZqMAteL/?igshid=vka165lcklhi

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About the confederate flag: I'm not sure, but from what I've heard its not even real--it's their navy flag, or a bastardization of their flag (white field with what we recognize in the corner, like the stars on the US flag. Is that true?

The First Official Flag of the Confederacy. Although less well known than the “Confederate Battle Flags”,the Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863. (Stars in a circle with red stripes and one white stripe)

The real Confederate National Flag looks very similar to the old U.S. flag, which was confusing for confederate troops during the Civil War. So, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard commissioned the southern states to create battle flags to make it clear for soldiers who was friend and who was foe. See it here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/little-known-confederate-flag-facts-article-1.2268164

The Confederate battle flag was never the official flag of the Confederacy.

The Confederate States of America went through three different flags during the Civil War, but the battle flag wasn’t one of them. Instead, the flag that most people associate with the Confederacy was the battle flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

Designed by the Confederate politician William Porcher Miles, the flag was rejected for use as the Confederacy’s official emblem, although it was incorporated into the two later flags as a canton. It only came to be the flag most prominently associated with the Confederacy after the South lost the war.

Confederate Navy Jack: Used as a navy jack at sea from 1863 onward. This flag has become the generally recognized symbol of the South. This is the flag the idiot racists stole and used as their symbol. (The one they want banned) This is NOT “The Stars and Bars” as uneducated people may call it.

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Civil War Soldier Coughed Up Bullet 58 Years After Being Shot In The Eye!

For 58 years, the Civil War-era bullet that took the right eye of Confederate soldier Willis Meadows, left, was lodged near his brain. Fired in 1863 at the siege of Vicksburg by Union soldier Peter Knapp, right, the bullet reappeared in 1921 when Meadows was stricken with a violent coughing spell. The one-time mortal enemies were reunited as friends.

Willis Meadows grasped his throat and began to choke. Whatever was stuck in there wouldn't come out, and with coughing spasms growing violent, the 78-year old couldn't breathe. Just when he thought it was his time to die, something flew from his mouth, bounced on the wooden kitchen table and tumbled to a stop.

Trapped in Meadows' head for nearly 58 years, here was the Civil War bullet, a one-ounce slug that had taken out the Confederate veteran's right eye when he was just a boy. "Coughs Up Bullet" was a national newspaper story in 1921. Eleven years later, in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" cartoon, it was published around the world in 42 countries and 17 different languages. Ripley missed the most unbelievable part of the story. After 58 years, Meadows would meet the Union soldier who shot him. It's a story that might have disappeared had Central Point resident, Henry Kilburn, not talked to a local newspaper editor in 1950.

With some inaccuracies in his story, Kilburn showed the editor a diary and an enlarged photograph of a bullet, with images of two men on either side. He said the one-eyed man was Meadows and the other was Peter Knapp, of Kelso, Wash., author of the diary and the man who had fired the bullet into Meadow's eye. Turns out that after Knapp saw the story, he realized he was the one who fired the bullet that lodged near Meadows' brain. Within a few months, he contacted Meadows and when they compared notes, they realized it was true. As young mortal enemies they had tried to kill each other, but now, as aging veterans, they would spend their last few years as friends, exchanging photographs and wishing each other good health. Meadows was 19 in the spring of 1862 when he joined his brothers and cousins in Company G of the 37th Alabama Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to the western front along the Mississippi River, where his company suffered heavy casualties in one battle after another, and by the summer of 1863, they were defending the city of Vicksburg from the Union army assault.

On July 1, the final push was on. Just outside of town, through a peephole in an iron boiler plate, sharpshooter Willis Meadows was firing his rifle at the Yanks. Peter Knapp, 21, and three other Union soldiers from Company H of the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry were approaching from the east. They had orders to kill Confederate snipers. Knapp spotted Meadows, aimed his rifle at the boiler plate peephole and fired. Meadows fell to the side, blood running from his right eye. He was apparently dead and the men moved on. Meadows was found and brought to Union surgeons who probed for the bullet, but were never able to find it, and didn't feel it was safe to perform an operation. He was put on board a POW ship and transported to a Union hospital. Later, he was paroled to a Confederate hospital, where he spent the rest of the war as a patient and sometime nurse's aide. After the war, he returned to his farm in Lanett, Ala., just east of the Georgia state line. He married, but had no children and probably would have died in obscurity had he not coughed up the bullet.

Knapp was captured a few months after Vicksburg and was held in a number of Confederate prisons, including Andersonville. After the war, he farmed in Michigan, married, and in 1887, moved to Kelso. Henry Kilburn's relationship to Peter Knapp grew out of his family's hardship, which also provided the Southern Oregon connection to this story. Peter Knapp and his wife, with no children of their own, adopted Henry Kilburn's younger sister, Minnie Mae, whose family was living in Jackson County in the early 1900s. Their mother had been divorced and abandoned by her husband. Alone, with three children to raise, she must have decided that adoption by Knapp was the best she could do for her daughter.

It was Mae Kilburn Knapp who gave Henry Kilburn the story, the diary and the photograph. The Central Point newspaper editor who heard the tale from Kilburn probably had it right when he said: "Can you beat that for a story? How small this little old world is — after all."

http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20091011/News/910110337

MORE TO THIS STORY HERE: Union Civil War veteran finally being laid to rest 88 years after his death and 151 years after defeat at Fort Sumter (PETER KNAPP STORY)

Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129086/Union-Civil-War-veteran-finally-laid-rest-88-years-death-151-years-defeat-Fort-Sumter.html#ixzz3VYLIcI2i

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  The American Civil War: The American Civil War (1861–1865), often referred to as the Civil War and sometimes the "War Between the States", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States. Eleven southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the other 25 states supported the federal government ("the Union"). After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation. Issues that led to war were partially resolved in the Reconstruction Era that followed, though others remained unresolved. The Civil War was a contest marked by the ferocity and frequency of battle. Over four years, 237 battles were fought, and many more minor actions and skirmishes. In the scales of world military history, both sides fighting were characterized by their bitter intensity and high casualties. “The American Civil War was to prove one of the most ferocious wars ever fought”. Without geographic objectives, the only target for each side was the enemy’s soldier. The causes of the Civil War were complex, and have been controversial since the war began. The issue has been further complicated by historical revisionists, who have tried to improve the image of the South by lessening the role of slavery. Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s. The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election. Following Lincoln's victory, many Southern whites felt that disunion had become their only option. Between 1803 and 1854, the United States achieved a vast expansion of territory through purchase, negotiation and conquest. Of the states carved out of these territories by 1845, all had entered the union as slave states: Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida and Texas, as well as the southern portions of Alabama and Mississippi. And with the conquest of northern Mexico, including California, in 1848, slaveholding interests looked forward to the institution flourishing in these lands as well. Southerners also anticipated garnering slaves and slave states in Cuba and Central America. Northern free soil interests vigorously sought to curtail any further expansion of slave soil. It was these territorial disputes that the proslavery and antislavery forces collided over In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason. After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and the incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this point. No foreign governments recognized the Confederacy. Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union seized control of the border States early in the war and established a naval blockade. Land warfare in the East was inconclusive in 1861–62, as the Confederacy beat back Union efforts to capture its capital, Richmond, Virginia, notably during the Peninsular Campaign. In September 1862, the Confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening. Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. In 1863, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's northward advance ended in defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army. Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower. Grant restructured the union army, and put other generals in command of divisions of the army that were to support his push into Virginia. He fought several battles of attrition against Lee through the Overland Campaign to seize Richmond, though in the face of fierce resistance he altered his plans and led the Siege of Petersburg which nearly finished off the rest of Lee's army. Meanwhile, Sherman captured Atlanta and marched to the sea, destroying Confederate infrastructure along the way. When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Reconstruction began during the war (and continued to 1877) in an effort to solve the issues caused by reunion, specifically the legal status of the 11 breakaway states, the Confederate leadership, and the freedmen. Northern leaders during the war agreed that victory would require more than the end of fighting. It had to encompass the two war goals: secession had to be repudiated and all forms of slavery had to be eliminated. The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, the experimental use of the first usable predecessor of the machine gun and of trench warfare around Petersburg, all foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877. The Civil War is one of the central events in America's collective memory. There are innumerable statues, commemorations, books and archival collections. The memory includes the home front, military affairs, the treatment of soldiers, both living and dead, in the war's aftermath, depictions of the war in literature and art, evaluations of heroes and villains, and considerations of the moral and political lessons of the war. The last theme includes moral evaluations of racism and slavery, heroism in combat and behind the lines, and the issues of democracy and minority rights, as well as the notion of an "Empire of Liberty" influencing the world. Memory of the war in the white South crystallized in the myth of the "Lost Cause", which shaped regional identity and race relations for generations.