By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
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The Confederate States Army (CS Army) was the army of the Confederate States of America during its brief existence from 1861 to 1865. It was established in two phases with provisional and permanent organizations, which existed concurrently. - Source: Wikipedia
Code Red: Washington put on full terror alert. The terror of horrific testosterone threatens to paralyze the nation's capital.
If getting dressed up to go to a crowded bar with the entire city isn't your idea of a special evening, then Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre has the answer for a unique New Year's Eve.
A one-volume macro-history is the best sort of history book. Though it rarely matches the literary panache and Herculean scholarship of, say, Winston Churchill's six-volume history of World War II, or Edmund Morris' three volumes on Theodore Roosevelt, the one-volume history is still a kind of blue blazer or black cocktail dress of nonfiction — an established combination of utility and elegance.
Hidden from view in a forest on the campus of the nation's best-known psychiatric institute rest at least 300 fallen Civil War soldiers. Interspersed are warriors from the Confederacy and the Union, white and black. For years, this secret cemetery along the Potomac River just off of Interstate 295 has been closed to the public.
The National Archives and Ancestry.com published newly digitized Civil War records online for the first time Wednesday, allowing users to trace family links to the war between North and South.
James Edward Hanger was a healthy man of 18 and a sophomore at Washington College in Lexington, Va., when he decided to fight in the War Between the States. Local officials considered him too young to join the Confederate army, but when he found an ambulance corps vehicle carrying food and other supplies for the Confederacy, he simply made himself part of the group leaving his hometown of Churchville, Va.
James Edward Hanger was a healthy man of 18 and a sophomore at Washington College in Lexington, Va., when he decided to fight in the War Between the States. Local officials considered him too young to join the Confederate army, but when he found an ambulance corps vehicle carrying food and other supplies for the Confederacy, he simply made himself part of the group leaving his hometown of Churchville, Va.
Southern rangers, in particular those led by John Hunt Morgan and John Singleton Mosby ("Grey Ghost of the Confederacy"), were thorns in the sides of Union commanders, often causing havoc as well as wreaking widespread destruction.
Southern rangers, in particular those led by John Hunt Morgan and John Singleton Mosby ("Grey Ghost of the Confederacy"), were thorns in the sides of Union commanders, often causing havoc as well as wreaking widespread destruction.
On the night of July 4, 1863, a lone rider saddled up and left Mercersburg, Pa., traveling west to McConnellsburg to deliver Judge James O. Carson's urgent plea for help to W.S. Fletcher.
After the Battle of Kernstown, Va., Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson ordered the court-martial of Brig. Gen. Richard Brooke Garnett for cowardice and "unauthorized retreat." Garnett was deeply hurt by the injustice of the accusation. Nevertheless, Garnett wept at Stonewall's funeral and served as one of his pallbearers.
