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Nineteen veterans of the Confederate Army stood below the stars and bars at a reunion in Gainesville in November 1925. They met, wearing their old uniforms wrinkled from storage and their medals rich with memories. They stood for this photograph, taken by Gainesville's Vansickel Studio, on the steps of the old Alachua County Courthouse. Confederate veterans in 1888 formed the United Confederate Veterans of Florida, and Alachua County had an active chapter until too few were left to keep it alive. The County had, at one time, about 135 men who served for the Confederacy. This photo was loaned by Archie L. Jackson, whose great-grandfather, Gen. Lawrence Whitfield Jackson, is the fourth man from the left on the front row.
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On February 28, 1862, Captain S. Hunter and a company of "Arizona Volunteers" from the Confederate Army of Texas Volunteers, occupied Tucson. Union sympathizers were given the choice of swearing allegiance to the Confederate States or leaving the territory. Hunter took what supplies he needed from Tucson, then proceeded to the Pima villages where he arrested a miller named Ammi White and took 1,500 sacks of wheat. He gave the wheat to the Indians since he didn't have any wagons to haul it away. While at the Pima Villages, Hunter ... captured a Captain William McCleave and nine men who were scouting ahead of the Union's California Column.
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Lee’s offensive, called the Seven Days’ Battles, began on June 25, 1862, when elements of the Union army advanced against Lee’s Confederates south of the Chickahominy. Lee, after ordering Jackson’s Valley command to Richmond, unleashed his combined forces against an exposed Union corps above the Chickahominy near Mechanicsville. The June 26 attack, called the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, began a series of engagements which forced McClellan to retreat across the Peninsula to the James River. The Seven Days’ Battles ended on July 1, 1862, when the Union army repulsed several bloody and uncoordinated Confederate assaults at Malvern Hill. McClellan’s army reached safety at Harrison’s Landing, but Lee’s offensive, although costly in men, achieved its objective –– Richmond was saved.
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On the outbreak of the American Civil War, 313 officers left the United States Army to join the Confederate Army. President Jefferson Davis called for 82,000 volunteers but this was clearly not enough and in August, 1861, the Confederate Congress authorized the recruitment of 400,000 men. It was the responsibility of the individual states to recruit these men.
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The history of the men born in Greece who served in the Confederate army must not be viewed as a single, isolated case, but most likely an occurrence in the Union forces as well. Since New Orleans was a major sea port to which ships from many nations charted their course, it is to be expected that New York City, and Boston would ... be the ports of entry for Greek immigrants, some of whom in all probability enlisted in the armed forces of the Union.
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