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    The Southerner was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the United States between New York City and New Orleans via Charlotte...
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  • Georgia "Southerners", a song by Prefuse 73 from the 2003 album One Word Extinguisher Southerner (U.S. train), a United States passenger train operated...
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    direct descendant of the Southerner, a streamlined passenger train operated by the Southern Railway from 1941 to 1970. The daily train followed essentially...
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    the US army—the Texas garrison—was surrendered in February to state forces by its general, David E. Twiggs, who joined the Confederacy. As Southerners resigned...
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    Congress Navy aircraft inventory by type U.S. 2024 Navy Responsibilities, United States Navy America's Navy 10 U.S.C. § 5062 "Naval Warfare 2010–2020: A...
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    Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. During his first year as president, Wilson authorized...
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    state. As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Horace...
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  • memories, and the 1963 episode, "The Hollister John Garrison Story" as a Southerner with a desperate secret, and the 1964 episode, "The Link Cheney Story"...
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    death, rumors began to circulate that Taylor was poisoned by pro-slavery Southerners, and similar theories have persisted into the 21st century. In 1991 a...
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    Crescent by 1938, and it began using diesel locomotives in 1941. While the Southerner and Tennessean were streamlined in 1941, the Crescent retained heavyweight...
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    The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (category Songs about trains)
    economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman...
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    rejected by White Southerners, who argued that by incorporating millions of Mexican people, mainly of mixed race, would undermine the U.S. as an exclusively...
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    political agenda and led to threats of secession from Southerners. Despite being a Southerner and a slaveholder himself, Taylor did not push for the...
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    the Irish and German strongholds and in the lower Midwest, where many Southerners had lived for generations. In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was sufficiently...
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    representation is two per state and Southerners had enough votes to block the addition. The war proved a decisive event for the U.S., marking a significant turning...
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    their widows. He also unsuccessfully supported aid for the education of Southerners, especially children of the freedmen; he believed education was necessary...
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    South from other U.S. regions in a reverse New Great Migration, but they tend to be educated and to settle in urban areas. Black Southerners strongly contributed...
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    BeltLine trail. Along with its famed Crescent and Southerner, the Southern's other named passenger trains included: Aiken-Augusta Special Airline Belle Asheville...
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    fall from a train in July disabled him for the duration of the campaign. As the Greenbackers had the only ticket that included a Southerner, he hoped to...
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  • operated dozens of named passenger trains, and in fact, was the largest passenger train operator in the US. All trains discontinued unless otherwise noted...
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  • definitively identify those moral absolutes. Langdale, John (2012). Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920–1990. University of Missouri...
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    altered his name, so Grant was enlisted under the name "U. S. Grant". Since the initials "U.S." also stood for "Uncle Sam", he became known among army...
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    military governor obliged with a speech contending his selection as a Southerner meant that the rebel states had not actually left the Union. Although...
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    Northerners reacted by saying "Let the Confederacy go in peace!", while some Southerners wanted to maintain their loyalty to the Union. The federal government...
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  • of named passenger trains in the United States, with names beginning S through Z. The primary source for American passenger train names is the Official...
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  • was similar to trains built for the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami Silver Meteor and the Southern's New York-New Orleans Southerner, except that it...
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    else runs short." Food often took the form of crackers or hardtack; Southerners sometimes chose cornmeal or pinole rather than wheat flour. Emigrants...
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    Missouri Compromise line of 36°30′ N. Both proposals were anathema to many Southerners, and the controversy split the Democrats. At the 1848 Democratic National...
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  • 1960s the Southern Railway ran this and other trains such as Piedmont Limited, Peach Queen, Southerner, daily along this same route. The Norfolk Southern...
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    informed Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr., commander of U.S. Pacific forces, that the situation was critical,: 349–351  "I am convinced that U.S. troops with...
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