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The Red Strings, also known as the Heroes of America, were a group active primarily in the Southern United States during the American Civil War. They favored peace, an end to the Confederacy, and a restoration of the Union.
Heroes of America (HOA), also referred to as the "Red Strings," was an underground, pro-Union organization operating in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and perhaps other southern states during the Civil War.
- The Beginning and The End
- Valley Forge and The Campaign of 1778
- The Yorktown Campaign
It appears that Washington’s first council of war was during the Patriot siege of Boston in July 1775. This council occurred on July 9, soon after Washington had arrived on July 3 with his adjutant, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, to take overall command of the fledgling Continental Army, thereby relieving Maj. Gen. Artemas Ward of command. The council wa...
Washington’s war councils at Valley Forge and in southern New Jersey in the months leading up to the Battle of Monmouth had arguably the largest numbers of American generals congregated at any one time, and they did so several times that spring and early summer. Perhaps the greatest (though not yet the most numerous) gathering of Washington’s gener...
While it was not an actual council of war, Washington’s return to Mount Vernon on September 9, 1781 for a three-day stay—his first there since—precipitated a visit from the French. Washington, his aides, Lt. Col. David Cobb and Lt. Col. David Humphreys, and his secretary, Lt. Col. Jonathan Trumbull were joined on the evening of September 10 by the ...
Mar 13, 2019 · The Heroes of America were far from the main cause of the South’s defeat, but they played their part. The society’s members did what they could, and should be remembered as a stark example of how not all Southerners were united either around slavery or the Confederacy.
In Oklahoma, the so-called Five Civilized Tribes, comprising the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminole, had one erected in their capital of Muskogee in 1925. On the “ready-made” memorial, they added the names of their war heroes, their tribes, and their former chiefs.
Sep 23, 2000 · “Councils of war do not fight,” he observed, repeating a favorite West Point adage. In the famous sequence of photographs taken by Timothy O’Sullivan at Massaponax Baptist Church in Virginia on May 21, 1864, O’Sullivan confidently described the action he had observed as a council of war.
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The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
