A Confederate Army Staff Officers Sword manufactured by Boyle & Gamble of Richmond, Virginia.
Included too is that crimson sash worn by the officer.
The guard of the sword bears the C.S. marking the sword as that of a Field or Staff officer and the star represents the Confederacy. The laurel symbolizes the bravery of the Confederate soldier and the corn is there to represent the agricultural base of the Confederacy.
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, claimed it launched two suicide assaults and other attacks with Syrian rebel groups, including an Islamist unit and two Free Syrian Army brigades.
The Al Nusrah Front made the claims in a series of statements released on June 27 by its official media outlet, the Al-Manara Al-Baydha’ Foundation. The statements were obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The attacks were carried out in conjunction with the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade, an Islamist group from the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, and the Dera’ al Assima, Liwa al Habib al Mustafa, and Liwa’ al-Tawhid, three Free Syrian Army brigades that operate in Damascus.
The Al Nusrah Front said the two suicide assaults took place “in Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus” on April 22. Al Nusrah Front suicide bombers targeted two “barriers,” or outposts, with explosives-packed cars.
“That was in order to open the way for the storming lions of the Al Nusrah Front and the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade to raid the two barriers and comb them,” the statement said, according to SITE. The Al Nusrah Front claimed that “more than 150 soldiers” were killed and two tanks were destroyed in the operation.http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/06/al_nusrah_front_clai_14.php#ixzz2Xep17v3k
russo brothers during tws & cw: steve has come to terms with missing out on life with peggy, doesn’t want the same to happen with bucky and will do anything in his power to save protect him.
the russo brothers with the end of endgame after steve gets bucky back:
Sarah Parker Remond: African-American Orator and Physician Remond was born 1826 in Salem, Massachusetts, into an abolitionist family who supported her efforts to become an anti-slavery orator. She and her brother Charles Lenox Remond were two of several abolitionists chosen by the American Anti-Slavery society to tour the country in 1856, giving speeches in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, often travelling without a male escort. Prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison praised her "calm, dignified manner, her winning personal appearance and her earnest appeals to the conscience and the heart.“
Remond was also responsible for one of the earliest recorded acts of the very same civil disobedience that became central to the Civil Rights Movement a century later. In 1853, Remond bought a ticket for the opera, Don Pasquale, at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston. She refused to accept segregated seating, however, and in response she was forced to leave the theatre and pushed down several stairs. Remond took action, sued for damages, and was found to be wronged by the theatre, winning an award of $500 for damages.
When the Civil War broke out, the American Anti-Slavery society, recognizing Remond’s skills, asked her to continue her oratorial career in Britain. In the early stages of the war, the Confederacy was hopeful for British support - because most goods were manufactured in the North, trade with Britain was crucial. Remond lectured on the cruel treatment of slaves in the Confederacy and helped raise support for a trade blockade with the Confederacy.
An excerpt from an 1859 speech shows how strong and poetic her speeches were, and her attempts to appeal to the morality of her British audience:
"I ask you, raise the moral public opinion until its voice reaches the American shores. Aid us thus until the shackles of the American slave melt like dew before the morning sun. I ask for especial help from the women of England. Women are the worst victims of the slave power. I am met on every hand by the cry, "cotton! cotton!” I cannot stop to speak of cotton while men and women are being brutalised [x].“
After the war, she continued to give speeches, soliciting mass funds to help feed and clothe the millions of freed slaves that had come out of the war.
Remond’s accomplishments did not stop there. In 1866, at 42, she moved to Italy, where she studied medicine at Santa Maria Nuova Hospital. Upon graduation, she became a doctor and practiced medicine in Rome for twenty years, where Frederick Douglass visited her in 1887. She married an Italian man in 1877, continuing her career after marriage. Remond seems to have found a home in Italy, as she never returned to the United States [x].
Since 1918 he was in the Volunteer Army (White army) and participated in the Ice March. He was serving as Second Lieutenant in the Kornilov shock division, and was wounded twice. In 1919 he returned to his homeland Latvia but was enlistend in the North-Western Army the same year. In December 1919 he transfered to the Rifle Division of the 5th Infantry Division. He survived the civil war and emigrated to Germany. In 1938 he was arrested by Gestapo for criticizing Nazi policies and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. After the end of the war he stayed and lived in Germany for the rest of his life together with his family.
Here we have a distinguished gentleman indeed. Reclining in his chair, Young is wearing the fine civilian clothes he donned for his post-war career as a politician and diplomat, although this photo was apparently taken at the height of the war itself, in 1863. His face demonstrates an unusual take on a goatee, with his remarkable moustache almost blocking out what little beard he has on his chin.
Young was one of the leading Confederate cavalry figures of the war, more or less from start to finish. He served under Wade Hampton and J.E.B. Stuart, showing bravery and leadership skills in a series of battles that eventually won him promotion to major general late in 1864. He saw out the war desperately and vainly defending his home state of Georgia and then his birthplace of South Carolina. After the surrender he returned to Georgia and served four terms in the US House of Representatives, later becoming a consul in Russia and Central America.
Hat in his right hand and sword at his left, Porter looks like the smart and distinguished general he was during the early stages of the war. But events in the summer of 1862 would lead to a controversial court martial and the effective end of his military career.
A professional soldier and veteran of the Mexican-American War, Porter was appointed to a senior command within George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. He developed a good reputation, which was shattered when he took the blame for the fiasco at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Porter refused an order from John Pope to mount an attack on Stonewall Jackson’s Confederates, because he feared exposing his men to a rebel force under James Longstreet which had just arrived on the battlefield. A day later, Porter reluctantly agreed to the attack, and his men were duly routed along with the rest of the Union Army. Once his friend McClellan was relieved of command later in the year, Porter no longer had any political cover, and was soon arrested, tried and convicted for his initial refusal to follow orders. He spent much of the rest of his life seeking to clear his name, and his sentence was eventually commuted in 1886.
With his bushy black beard and his sword at his left hand, Gillmore looks every bit the classic Civil War-era general. In reality, he wasn’t a classic soldier-general at all, but one of the innovative military engineers who helped the Union win the war.
Gillmore’s most notable achievement came at Fort Pulaski near Savannah in 1862. He used the new generation of rifled naval artillery to lay waste to the fort’s stone walls, essentially rendering old-style brick fortifications obsolete overnight. His record in more conventional warfare was less notable, and he was in charge for the ill-advised assaults on Fort Wagner off Charleston in July 1863, battles memorable for both the involvement of African-American soldiers and the high number of Union casualties. After the war, Gillmore had a long career as a civil engineer, including rebuilding and updating some of the Atlantic defences he had himself helped to destroy.
His beard, although impressive, is actually one of the least remarkable things about Stonewall’s general physical appearance. Convinced that one of his arms was longer than the other, he usually held one arm up in order to improve his circulation. He also chewed lemons in an attempt to ease his chronic indigestion, although his typically serious expression may have had more to do with his famously devout Christian faith than his taste for bitter citrus fruit.
An early Confederate hero, Jackson got his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run, when his brigade of Virginians stood firm against a fierce Union assault. His Shenandoah Valley campaign, in which he skilfully manouevred his smaller force to a series of victories over much larger Union armies, gave him the reputation as one of the great generals of the war. Although undoubtedly eccentric and sometimes unpredictable (his rather sketchy performances during the Seven Days battles have been criticised by historians), his death in 1863 was a serious setback to both Southern morale and Confederate military capability. He was hit by friendly fire in the immediate aftermath of one of his greatest victories, the routing of the Union right at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
