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Mallory, Stephen Russell

(Encyclopedia)Mallory, Stephen Russell, c.1813–73, U.S. Senator, secretary of the navy in the Confederacy, b. Trinidad, West Indies. He was raised in Key West, Fla., where he practiced law and was a customs offic...

Stone Mountain Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Stone Mountain Memorial, memorial to the Confederacy, consisting of the equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved on the northern face of Stone Mt., a granite ...

Creek

(Encyclopedia)Creek, Native North American confederacy. The peoples forming it were mostly of the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Creek received their name...

Onondaga

(Encyclopedia)Onondaga: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Cayuga

(Encyclopedia)Cayuga: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Iroquois League

(Encyclopedia)Iroquois League: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Five Nations

(Encyclopedia)Five Nations: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Six Nations

(Encyclopedia)Six Nations: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

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