George H.W. Bush full Houston funeral and coverage of funeral train en route to College Station, TX
Now that the President Bush's Houston funeral is over, the Union Pacific 4141 engine will lead the funeral train from Texas A&M Station to the Bush presidential library. This will be followed by a 21-plane flyover.
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A final service for former President George H.W. Bush was held Thursday in Houston, the city Mr. Bush adopted as his hometown, before he is laid to rest at his presidential library at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. The Houston funeral service will take place at St. Martin's Episcopal Church.
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Homer Dwight Coombs military honors 19 October 2011
Homer Dwight Coombs, 84 of Sugar Land, Texas formally from Charleston, West Virginia went peacefully home to be with the Lord, at home surrounded by his loving family members on Sunday, October 16, 2011. He was a member of the Sugar Creek Baptist Church, in Sugar Land, Texas and formerly a member of the Bible Center Church in Charleston, West Virginia
Homer was born March 13, 1927 in Winn, Maine and was the son of John Ariel and Ethel Whitney Coombs. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by the love of his life his dear wife of 63 years, Jean Ellison Coombs. Homer is survived by his two sisters Vera Knight from New Hampshire and Ruth Cogswell from Arlington, Texas, plus numerous nephews and nieces, along with a host of friends. Surviving children include his loving sons Dwight Ellison Coombs from Tequesta, Florida, John Ariel and daughter in law Sandra Newman Coombs along with two loving grandchildren of whom he was so very proud, Aaron and Ariel Coombs from Sugar Land, Texas.
Military service included serving in WWII and the Korean Conflict. Two bronze star medals were conferred while serving in Korea with the Second Infantry Division. Following an honorable discharge from the Army of the United States, Homer graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
Homer was a retired employee of Union Carbide Corporation with thirty two years of service and held various positions from chemical unit production engineer, department head, worldwide production manager, and assistant plant manager. Following retirement, he held numerous other positions which included Director of Physical Facilities at West Virginia State University, President of Environmental Products, Inc., and CEO of Republic Container Company. During the course of his career span, he also served as a Trustee of Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital; Director of Environmental Controls, Inc., and Chairman of the Bible Center Church School Committee.
Per Homer's wishes there will not be a visitation service.
A graveside memorial service will be held at the historic Morton Cemetery Chapel in Richmond, Texas on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Chapel in Rosenburg, Texas is in charge of arrangements.
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials | Wikipedia audio article
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
00:01:59 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Academic commentary
00:09:03 3 History of removals
00:10:10 4 Organizations encouraging monument removal
00:10:48 5 Destruction of monuments
00:12:00 6 Laws hindering removals
00:14:20 7 Public opinion
00:15:04 8 What to do with the plinths (pedestals)
00:16:59 9 Removed monuments and memorials
00:17:09 9.1 National
00:17:29 9.2 Alabama
00:19:13 9.3 Alaska
00:19:39 9.4 Arizona
00:20:12 9.5 Arkansas
00:20:50 9.6 California
00:22:55 9.7 Colorado
00:23:13 9.8 District of Columbia
00:24:18 9.9 Florida
00:31:38 9.10 Georgia
00:33:25 9.11 Kansas
00:34:12 9.12 Kentucky
00:35:31 9.13 Louisiana
00:41:48 9.14 Maine
00:42:06 9.15 Maryland
00:44:50 9.16 Massachusetts
00:45:12 9.17 Mississippi
00:45:46 9.18 Missouri
00:46:42 9.19 Montana
00:47:14 9.20 Nevada
00:47:41 9.21 New Mexico
00:47:56 9.22 New York
00:48:47 9.23 North Carolina
00:54:18 9.24 Ohio
00:55:19 9.25 Oklahoma
00:55:49 9.26 South Carolina
00:56:27 9.27 Tennessee
00:59:55 9.28 Texas
01:08:04 9.29 Utah
01:08:20 9.30 Vermont
01:09:14 9.31 Virginia
01:15:51 9.32 Washington (state)
01:18:29 9.33 Wisconsin
01:19:40 9.34 Canada
01:20:08 10 See also
01:20:51 11 Further reading
01:23:37 11.1 Video
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For decades in the U.S., there have been isolated incidents of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, although generally opposed in public opinion polls, and several U.S. States have passed laws over 115 years to hinder or prohibit further removals.
In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, several municipalities in the United States removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America. The momentum accelerated in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The removals were driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion of slavery. Many of those who object to the removals, like President Trump, believe that the artifacts are part of the cultural heritage of the United States.The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877–1954) and the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968). Detractors claim that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy. The monuments have thus become highly politicized; according to Eleanor Harvey, a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a scholar of Civil War history: If white nationalists and neo-Nazis are now claiming this as part of their heritage, they have essentially co-opted those images and those statues beyond any capacity to neutralize them again.In some Southern states, state law restricts or prohibits altogether the removal or alteration of public Confederate monuments. According to Stan Deaton, senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society, These laws are the Old South imposing its moral and its political views on us forever more. This is what led to the Civil War, and it still divides us as a country. We have competing visions not only about the future but about the past.
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Indiana in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Indiana in the American Civil War
00:02:54 1 Indiana's contributions
00:04:12 1.1 Military service
00:07:50 2 Notable leaders from Indiana
00:08:18 2.1 Training and support
00:11:09 2.2 Prison camps
00:11:31 2.3 Military cemeteries
00:12:11 3 Conflicts
00:13:02 3.1 Raids
00:15:55 3.2 Indiana regiments
00:20:36 4 Politics
00:22:05 4.1 Southern influence
00:24:37 4.2 Political conflict
00:30:17 4.3 Southern sympathizers
00:30:51 4.4 Republican legislative majority
00:31:30 5 Aftermath
00:32:12 5.1 Economic
00:35:02 5.2 Political
00:36:31 5.3 Social
00:37:37 5.4 Memorials
00:38:05 6 See also
00:38:20 7 Notes
00:38:28 8 Further reading
00:42:57 8.1 Local and regional studies
00:44:42 8.2 Military units and personnel
00:48:41 8.3 Biographical
00:50:06 8.4 Historiography and memory
00:51:56 8.5 Primary sources
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Indiana, a state in the Midwest, played an important role in supporting the Union during the American Civil War. Despite anti-war activity within the state, and southern Indiana's ancestral ties to the South, Indiana was a strong supporter of the Union. Indiana contributed approximately 210,000 Union soldiers, sailors, and marines. Indiana's soldiers served in 308 military engagements during the war; the majority of them in the western theater, between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Indiana's war-related deaths reached 25,028 (7,243 from battle and 17,785 from disease). Its state government provided funds to purchase equipment, food, and supplies for troops in the field. Indiana, an agriculturally rich state containing the fifth-highest population in the Union, was critical to the North's success due to its geographical location, large population, and agricultural production. Indiana residents, also known as Hoosiers, supplied the Union with manpower for the war effort, a railroad network and access to the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, and agricultural products such as grain and livestock. The state experienced two minor raids by Confederate forces, and one major raid in 1863, which caused a brief panic in southern portions of the state and its capital city, Indianapolis.
Indiana experienced significant political strife during the war, especially after Governor Oliver P. Morton suppressed the Democratic-controlled state legislature, which had an anti-war (Copperhead) element. Major debates related to the issues of slavery and emancipation, military service for African Americans, and the draft, ensued. These led to violence. In 1863, after the state legislature failed to pass a budget and
left the state without the authority to collect taxes, Governor Morton acted outside his state's constitutional authority to secure funding through federal and private loans to operate the state government and avert a financial crisis.
The American Civil War altered Indiana's society, politics, and economy, beginning a population shift to central and northern Indiana, and contributed to a relative decline in the southern part of the state. Increased wartime manufacturing and industrial growth in Hoosier cities and towns ushered in a new era of economic prosperity. By the end of the war, Indiana had become a less rural state than it previously had been. Indiana's votes were closely split between the parties for several decades after the war, making it one of a few key swing states that often decided national elections. Between 1868 and 1916, five Indiana politicians were vice-presidential nominees on the major party tickets. In 1888 Benjamin Harrison, one of the state's former Civil War generals, was elected president of the United States.
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This is a piece on history of women in the United States since 1776, and of the Thirteen Colonies before that. The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories. By the 1960s, women were being presented as successful as male roles. An early feminist approach underscored their victimization and inferior status at the hands of men. In the 21st century writers have emphasized the distinctive strengths displayed inside the community of women, with special concern for minorities among women.
List of slaves | Wikipedia audio article
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List of slaves
00:00:26 1 A
00:08:00 2 B
00:11:53 3 C
00:16:41 4 D
00:19:41 5 E
00:24:22 6 F
00:25:49 7 G
00:28:57 8 H
00:31:33 9 I
00:33:14 10 J
00:42:19 11 K
00:43:42 12 L
00:47:16 13 M
00:55:40 14 N
00:57:32 15 O
00:58:59 16 P
01:03:58 17 Q
01:04:33 18 R
01:07:44 19 S
01:13:20 20 T
01:16:29 21 U
01:16:50 22 V
01:18:53 23 W
01:21:12 24 X
01:21:25 25 Y
01:22:32 26 Z
01:23:45 27 See also
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Slavery is a social-economic system under which persons are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves.
The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several names have been added under the letter representing the person's last name.
Aaron Burr | Wikipedia audio article
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Aaron Burr
00:01:46 1 Early life
00:03:46 1.1 Revolutionary War
00:07:45 2 First marriage and family
00:10:22 2.1 Illegitimate children
00:12:27 3 Politics
00:14:31 3.1 New York City politics
00:16:28 3.2 The presidential election of 1800
00:19:17 3.3 Vice presidency
00:20:19 4 Duel with Alexander Hamilton
00:25:27 5 Conspiracy and trial
00:31:13 6 Exile and return
00:32:46 7 Later life and death
00:33:08 7.1 Adopted and natural children
00:34:18 7.2 Marriage to Eliza Jumel
00:35:09 7.3 Death
00:35:36 8 Character
00:40:27 9 Legacy
00:41:14 10 Representation in literature and popular culture
00:46:34 11 Notes
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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician. He was the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), serving during Thomas Jefferson's first term.
Burr served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, after which he became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly (1784–1785, 1798–1799), was appointed New York State Attorney General (1789–1791), was chosen as a U.S. senator (1791–1797) from the State of New York, and reached the apex of his career as vice president. In the waning months of his tenure as president of the Senate, he oversaw the 1805 impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804, the last full year of his single term as vice president. He was never tried for the illegal duel and all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended Burr's political career.
Burr left Washington, D.C., and traveled west seeking new opportunities, both economic and political. His activities eventually led to his arrest on charges of treason in 1807. The subsequent trial resulted in acquittal, but Burr's western schemes left him with large debts and few influential friends. In a final quest for grand opportunities, he left the United States for Europe. He remained overseas until 1812, when he returned to the United States to practice law in New York City, where he spent the rest of his life in relative obscurity.
Battle of the Wilderness | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of the Wilderness
00:02:02 1 Background
00:02:10 1.1 Military situation
00:03:35 2 Opposing forces
00:03:45 2.1 Union
00:05:16 2.2 Confederate
00:06:20 3 Disposition of forces and movement to battle
00:11:14 4 Battle
00:11:23 4.1 May 5: Orange Turnpike
00:14:53 4.2 May 5: Orange Plank Road
00:16:48 4.3 Plans for May 6
00:18:07 4.4 May 6: Longstreet's attacks
00:21:29 4.5 May 6: Gordon's attacks
00:23:27 4.6 May 7
00:24:25 5 Aftermath
00:27:07 5.1 Casualties
00:27:48 6 Battlefield preservation
00:29:58 7 In popular culture
00:30:08 7.1 Film and television
00:31:07 7.2 Literature
00:32:08 7.3 Music
00:32:24 7.4 Commemorative postal stamps
00:33:04 8 See also
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The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, around 5,000 men killed in total, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive.
Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike. That afternoon the Third Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill, encountered Brig. Gen. George W. Getty's division (VI Corps) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting until dark was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods.
At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank. Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men. An evening attack by Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon against the Union right flank caused consternation at Union headquarters, but the lines stabilized and fighting ceased. On May 7, Grant disengaged and moved to the southeast, intending to leave the Wilderness to interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, leading to the bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Florida in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Florida in the American Civil War
00:01:09 1 Origins
00:02:57 2 Early Confederate years
00:05:27 3 African Americans
00:07:20 4 Final Confederate years
00:09:53 5 Restoration to Union
00:10:47 6 Battles in Florida
00:10:57 7 See also
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Florida had joined the Confederate States of America in advance of the Civil War, as the third of the original seven states to secede from the Union, following Lincoln's 1860 election. With the smallest population, nearly half of them slaves, Florida could only send 15,000 troops to the Confederate States Army. Its chief importance was in food-supply to the south, and support for blockade-runners, with its long coastline full of inlets that were hard to patrol.
On the outbreak of war, the Confederates seized many of the state's army camps, though the Union retained control of the main seaports. There was little fighting in Florida, the only major conflict being the Battle of Olustee near Lake City in February 1864. However, wartime conditions made it easier for slaves to escape, and many of them became useful informers to Union commanders. As southern morale suffered, deserters from both sides took refuge in Florida, often attacking Confederate units and looting farms. In May 1865, Federal control was re-established, slavery abolished, and the state governor John Milton shot himself, rather than submit to Union occupation.