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William Barksdale (August 21, 1821 – July 3, 1863) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, U.S. Representative, and Confederate general in the American Civil War.He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1861.
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Indiana Neidell (born 28 September 1967) is an American-Swedish documentarian, historian, actor, voice actor, musician and YouTube personality, best known for presenting the video series, The Great War on The Great War Channel [3] [4] which documented World War I in real time using modern research, various secondary sources and archival footage.
John Gibbon (1827–1896), Union Army general in American Civil War and colonel in the American Indian Wars (Charlotte) The Greensboro Four , male African-American students at North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started first civil rights sit-in ; led to restaurants being desegregated throughout Southern U.S.
An election for speaker took place on July 4, 1861, at the start [c] of the 37th Congress, following the 1860–61 elections in which Republicans won a majority of the seats, and the subsequent secession of several states from the Union at the outset of the Civil War.
Following the start of the Civil War and Virginia's secession, Bocock was elected as a Democrat to the Confederate States House of Representatives in 1861, serving until the end of the war in 1865. He was a member of the unicameral Provisional Confederate Congress , as well as the succeeding First and Second Confederate Congresses .
Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) [1] Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War.A millworker, Banks became prominent in local debating societies and entered politics as a young adult.
John Griffin Carlisle (September 5, 1834 – July 31, 1910) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from Kentucky.He represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1890, serving as the 31st Speaker of the House from 1883 to 1889, and served in the United States Senate from 1890 to 1893.