Herron used his artillery to great effect, disabling most of the confederate guns and using it effectively against rebel attacks. Hearing the sounds of the battle, Blunt ordered his wing to march to the sound, led by the 11th Kansas Volunteer Infantry under Colonel Thomas Ewing.

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Kinnikuman Nisei ( Ultimate Muscle) have Gorgeousman or ゴージャスマン
He too is a Confederacy theme hero , Minor character though Kid Muscle did wear his suit at one point

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Jefferson Davis, former colonel, Senator from Mississippi, and US Secretary of War, as well as the only president of the confederate states of America, died in 1889 in New Orleans, LA. He was 81 years old.

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Just so my non-American followers are aware, the stars n bars is slang for the “confederate flag” which represented The South during the civil war. What was the civil war about? The states right to own slaves. Guess which side was pro-slavery.

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Both sides attacked and counter-attacked, but ultimately the larger U.S. force forced the confederates to withdraw. Kilpatrick then ordered the bridges over Brier Creek burned, helping to protect the flank of General Sherman on his March to the Sea.

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The Lenape story of the "Great Turtle" was first recorded by Europeans between 1678 and 1680 by Jasper Danckaerts. The story is shared by other Northeastern Woodlands tribes, notably those of the Iroquois Confederacy.

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🍊HAPPY MIKAN DAY🍊
November 3rd (& December 3rd) celebrate winter's greatest fruit...the mikan.
Established by the Confederation of Fruit Producers, the dates use some punnery.

3rd='mikka'=closish to 'mikan'.
November (11)= looks like 'いい' or 'good'.
Thus...'good mikan day'🙄

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While he was successful in pushing back Marmaduke, Blunt’s advance left his command exposed, isolated from supporting U.S. troops. This prompted further confederate attacks, leading to the much larger Battle of Prairie Grove a week later.

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Tbh saying “for the confederacy of independent systems” is a mouthful https://t.co/l2E7tlum88

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Flurks by have just been delisted from for having confederate flags as a trait. It's another terrible precedent which shows the hypocrisy of OS and how far from real decentralization we are.

How are BAYC wearing commie hats different from Flurks? Thread/

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Imagine getting triggered by the confederate flag but not blinking an eye for the hammer and sickle.

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why did a project with confederate flags just sell out? how is this acceptable?

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When the Army was surrendered to General William T. Sherman by its final commander, Joseph Johnston, on April 26, 1865, it became the last major field command of the confederate army to surrender.

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Then on the 3rd day, the Brazen Pegasus is waylaid by a pirate ship known to captain Ortimay, the Dragonfang, part of the Pirate Confederacy known as the Trident, captained by the hostile Chultan (& wereboar) Captain Elok Jaharwon.

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The Siege of Knoxville, TN began in 1863 when General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Ohio took up defensive positions inside the city, which confederate James Longstreet then surrounded with his veteran corps.

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The engagement was part of Longstreet’s Knoxville Campaign, his only independent command during the war. Intended to occupy Knoxville’s rail junction as a means of connecting the confederate armies in the East and West, it failed when Longstreet could not dislodge Burnside.

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Special edition

Confederate States of America (1865)
+
Mordor
=
Confederate States of Mordor:

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Volterra, town & episcopal see, Tuscany region, central Italy, northwest of Siena. As the ancient Velathri, 1 of the 12 cities in Etruscan confederation. Became free commune in the 12th century & fell under the domination of the Medici family of Florence in 1361.

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On this day in 1861, the United States risks war with Great Britain as a boarding party from an American warship removes Confederate diplomats from the Royal Mail Ship Trent. London responds by sending troops to Canada.

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