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In May 1861, 21-year-old Sam Watkins of Maury County, Tennessee, rushed to join the army when his state left the Union.He became part of Company H (or Co. "Aytch," as he called it), 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, fought from Shiloh to Nashville, and acted as one of only seven men who remained in the company when it was surrendered to U.S. Major-General W. T. Sherman in North Carolina, April ...
Showdown in Virginia: the 1861 Convention and the fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2964-4. Heinemann, Ronald L. (2008). Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: a history of Virginia, 1607–2007. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2769-5. Wallenstein, Peter (2007). Cradle of America: a history of Virginia ...
Paul v. Virginia , 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 168 (1869), is a U.S. corporate law decision by the United States Supreme Court . It held that a corporation is not a citizen within the meaning of the Privileges and Immunities Clause .
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, chiefly authored by George Mason and approved by the Virginia Convention on June 12, 1776, contains the wording: "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which . . . they cannot deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with ...
University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2769-5. Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. John T. West, Richmond. ISBN 978-1-2879-2059-5. Tartar, Brent (2013). The Grandees of Government: the origins and persistence of undemocratic politics in ...
The National Park Service quotes Union as 23 and Confederate as 91 (without differentiating types of casualties). [1] Kennedy cites 75 Union deaths and 25 Confederate deaths. [ 15 ] In his Official Report, Major-General Robert Patterson states the number of Confederate deaths as "over sixty" [ 16 ] but does not describe Union casualties.
By RYAN GORMAN President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech touched on many subjects including taxes, racial tensions and income inequality -- here are some of the most notable quotes.
United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only admission policy of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in a 7–1 decision.