Camden: Defeat and Destruction | The Southern Campaign
On August 16, 1780, General Horatio Gates' army, joined by militia men from North Carolina and Virginia, marched south toward the British outpost in Camden, South Carolina. At the same time, Lt General Charles Earl Cornwallis's army headed north. The cavalries clashed in a battle that became known as the Battle of Camden, the largest battle in the South up to that point.
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Waxhaws: Blood in the Backcountry | The Southern Campaign
On May 29, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion caught up with Colonel Abraham Buford’s army at a place called “The Waxhaws” in the Catawba River valley, located four miles south of the North Carolina border. Over in fifteen minutes and with 113 Americans dead on the field, this massacre became the first major battle of the Southern Campaign.
The Battle of Waxhaws was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War, but not for reasons the British might have hoped. Their intent was to make the back country colonists feel the “heel of the boot.” But instead of disheartening the opposition, “Buford’s Massacre” rallied patriot support. Many patriots who had previously surrendered rejoined the fight, determined to repay the harshness of “Tarleton’s quarter” with a vengeance of their own.
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Modern display of the Confederate flag | Wikipedia audio article
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Modern display of the Confederate flag
00:01:30 1 Background
00:01:56 2 The vernacular Confederate flag
00:03:31 3 Revival and controversy
00:04:55 3.1 Unofficial military use
00:06:08 3.2 Political groups
00:09:27 3.3 Religious groups
00:09:49 3.4 Public opinion (2011-2017)
00:11:51 3.5 Historical and modern meaning
00:13:53 3.6 Popularity outside the southern U.S.
00:14:12 3.6.1 Pacific Northwest
00:15:39 3.6.2 At European far-right events
00:16:11 3.6.3 Southern pride in Italy's football stadiums
00:17:55 3.7 In film and television
00:18:18 3.8 Use by musicians
00:19:11 3.9 University of Mississippi statue
00:20:27 3.10 House bill banning flag at VA cemeteries
00:21:31 3.11 Six Flags Over Texas
00:22:09 3.12 Display at American University
00:22:36 3.13 Silent Sam controversy (North Carolina)
00:22:57 4 Official usage in southern U.S. states
00:24:10 4.1 State flags
00:24:18 4.1.1 Alabama
00:26:13 4.1.2 Arkansas
00:26:39 4.1.3 Florida
00:27:11 4.1.4 Georgia
00:28:22 4.1.5 Mississippi
00:29:40 4.1.6 North Carolina
00:30:05 4.2 State symbol
00:30:48 4.3 State seals
00:32:17 4.4 Vehicle license plates
00:34:01 4.5 Display at South Carolina State Capitol
00:38:11 5 Reactions to 2015 Charleston church shooting
00:40:23 5.1 Removal from South Carolina State Capitol
00:45:56 5.2 Retailer bans
00:48:33 5.3 NASCAR
00:49:45 5.4 Washington National Cathedral
00:50:44 6 Trump rallies
00:52:13 7 Display in South Carolina vandalized
00:53:02 8 See also
00:53:37 9 Further reading
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The display of flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the Southern cross used in the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, the Southern United States in general. Such displays have been made for a variety of reasons, with Southern heritage, states' rights, and historical commemoration among the stated reasons for particular uses. Displaying the flag has long been controversial in the United States, due to the flag's longstanding associations with racism, slavery, segregation, white supremacy, and treason. Many Southerners associate the Confederate battle flag with pride in their heritage and traditions, but for most outsiders it is impossible to separate the flag from its association with the defense of slavery and racial bias.
Despite the common belief that the Confederate flag has remained in uninterrupted use since the end of the American Civil War, its use was mostly limited to historical films, like Gone with the Wind (1939). Its revival in the 1950s and 1960s came about because of the American Civil War Centennial, but was also used to show opposition to the
Civil Rights Movement, starting with Senator Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats in 1948. Racism played a major role in its renewed popularity.
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John W. Davis | Wikipedia audio article
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John W. Davis
00:02:31 1 Family and early life
00:02:40 1.1 Family background
00:04:13 1.2 Early years
00:04:39 1.3 Education
00:06:33 1.4 Early legal career
00:07:22 1.5 Family connections
00:08:43 2 Political and diplomatic career
00:12:22 2.1 The Business Plot
00:13:05 2.2 Alger Hiss
00:13:47 3 Legal career
00:14:47 3.1 Appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court
00:15:28 3.2 Youngstown Steel case
00:17:34 3.3 Brown v. Board of Education
00:18:54 4 Death and legacy
00:19:53 5 Electoral history
00:23:04 6 See also
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John William Davis GBE (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. The culmination of his political career came when he ran for President in 1924 under the Democratic Party ticket, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
Born and raised in West Virginia, Davis briefly worked as a teacher before beginning his long legal career. Davis's father, John J. Davis, had been a delegate to the Wheeling Convention and served in the United States House of Representatives in the 1870s. Davis joined his father's legal practice and adopted much of his father's political views, including opposition to anti-lynching legislation and support for states' rights. Davis served in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913, helping to write the Clayton Antitrust Act. He held the position of solicitor general from 1913 to 1918, during which time he successfully argued for the illegality of Oklahoma's grandfather law in Guinn v. United States.
While serving as the ambassador to Britain from 1918 to 1921, Davis was a dark horse candidate for the 1920 Democratic presidential nomination. After he left office, Davis helped establish the Council on Foreign Relations and advocated for the repeal of Prohibition. The 1924 Democratic National Convention nominated Davis for president after 103 ballots. His nomination made him the first nominee from a former slave state, Virginia, since the Civil War, and Davis remains the only major party presidential candidate from West Virginia. Running on a ticket with Charles W. Bryan, Davis lost in a landslide to Coolidge.
Davis did not seek public office again after 1924, but remained a prominent attorney, representing many of the country's largest businesses. Over a 60-year legal career, he argued 140 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He famously argued the winning side in Youngstown Steel, in which the Supreme Court ruled against President Harry Truman's seizure of the nation's steel plants. Davis also unsuccessfully defended the separate but equal doctrine in Briggs v. Elliott, one of the companion cases to Brown v. Board of Education.