| Title: | The American Civil War |
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| Moderator: | SMURF::BINDER |
| Created: | Mon Jul 15 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Apr 08 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 141 |
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I was watchin Jeopardy last night, and one of the questions under
"The Civil War" was:
What was the only Confederate capitol never invaded by Yankee troops?
And the answer was.....
Tallahassee!
I thought the South only ever had two cities that were it's
capitols, ie Montgomery and Richmond!?
When was Tallahassee the capitol?
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| 80.1 | State vs. National | AVNGRS::BOELKE | I know you're out there somewhere | Thu Sep 03 1992 13:43 | 3 |
Could they have been referring to state capitols vs. the national? | |||||
| 80.2 | States | NEMAIL::RASKOB | Mike Raskob at OFO | Thu Sep 03 1992 15:28 | 8 |
RE .0, .1:
I'm sure they were referring to state capitols - though I'm not sure
the Texas capitol was invaided by Federals during the war. Certainly
all of the other state capitols in the Confederacy were captured.
MikeR
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| 80.3 | State Capitols | MACNAS::TJOYCE | Tue Sep 15 1992 10:09 | 9 | |
I am convinced that it is state capitols that are mentioned.
During the early Reconstruction period, Federal troops occupied
many state capitols and expelled the state congressmen, because
they passed "Black Code" legislation inimical to the rights of
former slaves.
Toby
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| 80.4 | Washington, Arkansas. | JGO::JOOSTEN | Wed Sep 23 1992 09:03 | 12 | |
Relating to this subject is a story in the magazine "America's Civil
War", the September edition of this year. The author, Leslie Barns,
tells there the war story of the little village Washington in Arkansas.
After the federal occupation of Little Rock on September 10, 1863 this
town became the state Capital of Confederate Arkansas until the end of
the war.
Nowadays this town is a National Park in complete 19th century stile.
As to the question; this capital was never occupied by the federals
but I vigor it don't count as a real one.
Greetings Jean-Gerard Fifis, Netherlands.
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