Gold, checks and Confederate money: Postal Service supervisor pleads guilty to $300,000 mail theft
Joivian Tjuana Hayes, who was a supervisor at the Costa Mesa Post Office, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 ...
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Two Ultra-Rare Confederate Coins & the Stories Behind Them
Coin Type Value Confederate States of America half-dollar $960,000 Confederate States of America half-dollar reproduction ...
Post Office supervisor from Compton stole gold, Confederate cash, checks
A U.S. Postal Service supervisor from Compton could get two decades in prison after she admitted on Friday to stealing ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
11 southern states came together to break away and form the Confederate States of America. The new country had its own President - Jefferson Davis, who served from 1861 to 1865. He was from ...
Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
Sunday is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Why does Florida have 3 Confederate holidays?
Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.
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The Civil War and emancipation
The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4 ...
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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
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Flag on government websites not Trump’s nod to the Confederacy. It’s been used since 2017
The first Confederate flag had a varying number of stars based on how many states seceded from the Union. Some versions had nine stars, but they were arranged in a circle. See the sources for this ...
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Southern secession and the outbreak of the Civil War
The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.