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In 1944, they changed their name to Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 at their convention in Des Moines, Iowa. [1] In the 1950s, the national organization relocated to Springfield, Illinois. [3] In 1969, a facility was built to house their national headquarters and a Civil War museum.
"Erected by Harmanson-West camp Confederate veterans, the daughters of the Confederacy, and the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the soldiers of the Confederacy from Northampton and Accomack Counties. They died bravely in war, or, in peace live nobly to rehabilitate their country. A. D. 1913." [8] Emporia: Confederate Memorial (1910)
All but John, who was a disabled veteran of the Mexican–American War, served as Confederate military officers in Tennessee and Mississippi during the American Civil War. [39] Forrest's son William M. Forrest served as his aide-de-camp, [40] and his half-brother Mat Luxton was a sergeant and scout in his cavalry. [41]
Campaign medals and other military awards and decorations issued exclusively for the American Civil War. Pages in category "Military awards and decorations of the American Civil War" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Unidentified Civil War veteran in United Confederate Veterans uniform with Southern Cross of Honor medal. From the Library of Congress Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs. The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Bradford County (1861), named for Captain Richard Bradford, who was killed in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, becoming the first Confederate officer from Florida to die during the Civil War. [ 203 ] Hendry County (1923), named for Francis Asbury Hendry , a Confederate Captain and one of the first settlers in the area.
Bradford was born in New York City in 1719, [3] and was the grandson of the printer William Bradford. He was apprenticed to and was later a partner of his uncle Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia. This relationship ended in 1741. He visited England that year, returning in 1742 with equipment to open his own printing firm and library. [3]
William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic in order to escape persecution from King James I of England , and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.