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The American Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E.

Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S.

Grant in April of 1865.

He and his wife thrived for a time, and accumulated money and jewels; but a confederate betrayed them, and they fled to Venice, and then wandered for several years in Italy, France, and England.

Now, as a confederate or assistant, there's nobody like a woman.

I cannot, unfortunately, marry you; nor can I go about the country with you; nor can I possibly become your confederate and assistant.

In Cavendish Square, under the portico of Harcourt House, lately demolished, Disraeli said good-bye for ever to his confederate Lord George Bentinck.

Their favourite modus operandi was as follows-the thief climbed on the back of the conveyance, unfastened the ropes that secured the luggage, and with the assistance of an accomplice, removed the trunk or other booty when close to the house of the confederate receiver.

Harry Benson and his confederate Kurr were a brace of criminals [369]with a real genius for high-class swindling, such as, fortunately for gullible human nature, is rarely met with.

There's a legend about a place called "Spook Hill," where ghosts supposedly help push your car to the summit, and one about Confederate soldiers dumped in a well, and one about a mythical beast called the Snallygaster--part reptile, part bird, part octopus, with "huge jaws" and "razor sharp teeth.

In a 1997 column, he defends flying the Confederate flag over the South Carolina capitol because the Civil War "did not begin over slavery.

" The LAT and NYT fronts the pomp-filled reinterrment of the remains of 26 Confederate soldiers whose graves were recently found under a sports stadium in Charleston (the WP puts the story inside).

Volunteers spent most of the summer digging the site up, and yesterday, Civil War re-enactment groups gave them a full Confederate burial, including a rousing rendition of "Dixie.

" The papers agree that the event epitomized South Carolina's stubborn and controversial attachment to Confederate symbols.

The NAACP is currently boycotting the state for flying the Confederate flag.

There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.

" And he was at it once again tonight, when in response to repeated questions from Brian Williams of NBC, he refused to criticize the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol in Columbia, S.

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