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African American businesswoman. John Herbert Kelly, youngest brigadier general in the Confederate States Army at the time of his promotion and one of the youngest

the Confederate States Army bombing of Fort Sumter in the Battle of Fort Sumter and the Union Army's subsequent surrender of the fort, the American Civil

Template:American Civil War cemeteries Philadelphia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia

defensive force of the United States of America.‌ The United States Army serves as the land-based branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. Section 7062 of Title 10,

and Confederate armies and descendant heritage organizations led by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) and the Sons of Confederate Veterans

is called the "Mother of States" because of its role in being carved into states such as Kentucky, and for the numbers of American pioneers born in Virginia

Commonwealth of Virginia at the start of the American Civil War and, as a result, a part of the Confederate States of America due to Virginia's secession from

and it was one of the founding members of the Confederate States. The first six states to secede were those with the highest number of slaves. During the

36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. Tennessee's population as of the 2020 United States census is approximately 6.9 million. Tennessee

midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It is part of the Naval University System. The 338-acre

cadets from former confederate states. The first cadets from Southern states were re-admitted in 1868, and 1870 saw the admission of the first black cadet

Senate Executive Documents for the Second Session of the Forty-first Congress of the United States of America 1869–70. Washington: Government Printing Office

Stored: Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting

United States National Cemetery in 1864 as a place to inter the Union troops. Even though Louisiana was part of the Confederate States of America, nearby

Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Missouri Society Military Order of the Stars and Bars. The front of the monument features three Confederate flags:

its existence as the United States Survey of the Coast, created within the United States Department of the Treasury by an Act of Congress on February 10,

representative of Montana and the first woman in the United States to be a member of Congress, voted against the United States' declaration of war. Her actions

the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 66 acres (27 ha), and as of the end of 2006, had 24,525 interments. The cemetery is also

interments of 272 Confederate soldiers in their own section. Hampton National Cemetery has the interred remains of World War II prisoners of war, 55 German

was one of the twelve original United States National Cemeteries designated by Abraham Lincoln. The cemetery is the resting place of nine Medal of Honor