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April is Confederate History Month

Started by Blazor, April 14, 2020, 11:59:42 AM

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Belle Boyd

Only 17 years old when the Civil War began, by early 1862 Belle Boyd of Martinsburg (now West Virginia) and her activities were well known to the Union Army and the press, who dubbed her La Belle Rebelle. While visiting relatives whose home in Front Royal, Virginia was being used as a Union headquarters, Boyd learned that Union General Nathaniel Banks' forces had been ordered to march.

She rode fifteen miles to inform Confederate General Stonewall Jackson who was nearby in the Shenandoah Valley. She returned home under cover of darkness. Several weeks later, on May 23, 1862, when she realized Jackson was about to attack Front Royal, she ran onto the battlefield to provide the General with last minute information about the Union troop dispositions. Jackson captured the town and acknowledged her contribution and her bravery in a personal note.

Boyd was arrested several times, but managed to avoid incarceration until July 29, 1862, when she was imprisoned in Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, but was released after a month. She was arrested again in July 1863, after which she devised a unique method of communicating with her supporters outside. They shot rubber balls into her cell with a bow and arrow; she then enclosed messages inside the balls and threw them back.

In December 1863 Boyd was released and banished to the South. She sailed for England on May 8, 1864, but was arrested again as a Confederate courier. She finally escaped to Canada with the help of a Union naval officer, Lieutenant Sam Hardinge, and eventually made her way to England where she and Hardinge were married. Boyd later wrote of her wartime activities, "I allowed but one thought to keep possession of my mind - the thought that I was doing all a woman could do for her country's cause."




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Quote from: Blazor post_id=408358 time=1618511480 user_id=2221
I wanna watch this lol.



Check it at 11:50 and watch that 2 minutes lol. Lil Shirley Temple.



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That's so cute.

Blazor

Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

Anonymous

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Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.

Blazor

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Quote from: Blazor post_id=408369 time=1618514837 user_id=2221
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.


I thought the same!!!  :laugh:



Before its banned.
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Quote from: Blazor post_id=408369 time=1618514837 user_id=2221
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.

Good grief.

Anonymous


Blazor

Quote from: "Shen Li" post_id=408379 time=1618517255 user_id=56
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408370 time=1618514982 user_id=3254
Quote from: Blazor post_id=408369 time=1618514837 user_id=2221
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.

Good grief.


Its Shirley Temple!!!



Plus she puts on black face to hide from the Yankees  :laugh:



I skipped around a bit of the movie earlier lol.
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

Anonymous

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Quote from: "Shen Li" post_id=408379 time=1618517255 user_id=56
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408370 time=1618514982 user_id=3254
Quote from: Blazor post_id=408369 time=1618514837 user_id=2221
Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408365 time=1618514030 user_id=3254
That's so cute.


Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.

Good grief.


Its Shirley Temple!!!



Plus she puts on black face to hide from the Yankees  :laugh:



I skipped around a bit of the movie earlier lol.

Shirley Temple? Are you still straight?

Blazor

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Quote from: Fashionista post_id=408370 time=1618514982 user_id=3254
Quote from: Blazor post_id=408369 time=1618514837 user_id=2221




Shirley Temple was awesome.

I might watch that whole movie tonight.

Good grief.


Its Shirley Temple!!!



Plus she puts on black face to hide from the Yankees  :laugh:



I skipped around a bit of the movie earlier lol.

Shirley Temple? Are you still straight?


 :gthooh7il:
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

Blazor

Lol. Shirley Temple is what my grandma always watched when I was a kid lol. The kid was a great performer.





I just watched that movie, it was great lol.
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

Anonymous

Quote from: Blazor post_id=408444 time=1618536743 user_id=2221
Lol. Shirley Temple is what my grandma always watched when I was a kid lol. The kid was a great performer.





I just watched that movie, it was great lol.

I'm watching it now Blazor.

Blazor

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Quote from: Blazor post_id=408444 time=1618536743 user_id=2221
Lol. Shirley Temple is what my grandma always watched when I was a kid lol. The kid was a great performer.





I just watched that movie, it was great lol.

I'm watching it now Blazor.


Cool! I "think" it was colorized, aka was filmed in black and white before I think. Movie 85 years old.
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Blazor

Oh and its not as long as the video says, it starts to replay, so its only a lil over an hour long.
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Quote from: Blazor post_id=408358 time=1618511480 user_id=2221
I wanna watch this lol.



Check it at 11:50 and watch that 2 minutes lol. Lil Shirley Temple.



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It seems so funny in 2021.
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