As I give this talk, there are more than 700 Confederate monuments standing nationwide.

就在我这个演讲进行的时候，全国仍有 700 多座邦联纪念碑。

It is the last state to unstitch the emblem of the Confederacy from official regalia.

这是最后一个从官方徽章上移除邦联徽章的州。

The delegates, they said, did not have the right to throw the Articles away.

他们说，代表们没有权利废除《邦联条例》。

Mississippi scrapped its flag in 2020, because of its Confederate imagery.

密西西比州在2020年废除它的国旗，因为它有南部邦联的形象。

It is a loose confederation, in which national governments are the main sources of power.

而更像是松散的邦联，各国政府才是权力中心。

And in the US, it's often statues of generals in the confederate army.

在美国，通常是邦联军队中将军们的雕像。

General Beauregard informed the Confederate government in Montgomery that Anderson refused to surrender. He also reported the major's statement that Sumter had only enough food for a few more days.

博瑞德将军通知蒙哥马利市的邦联政府，安德森拒绝投降。他还报告少校的话，说萨姆特堡所剩的食物只能熬几天。

Reactions were divided by geography, and the country split in a way that would later be echoed by the division between the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War.

人们的反应因地理位置而不同，国家分裂的方式与后来南北战争中联邦和南部邦联的分裂如出一辙。

It's a somewhat a historic location in that during the Civil War, the Confederate troops marched through the end of our farm across the Potomac to Antietam.

这是一个具有历史意义的地方在内战期间，邦联军队穿我们农场的尽头穿马克到达安提特姆。

His grandfather, the original J.B. Sessions, was named after two icons of the Confederacy, Jeferson Davis and P.G.T.Beauregard, and was 2 when his own father died at Antietam.

他的祖父，初代J.B.塞申斯，是以南部邦联的两个标志性人物杰弗森·戴维斯和P.G.T.博勒加德的名字命名的，而且，他的父亲在安提塔姆内战期间离世时他才两岁。

Some have already started voicing their fears that the removal of Confederate states is a slippery slope that will lead to monuments to Washington and Jefferson being taken down.

一些人已开始表达自己的担心，移除南部邦联将军的雕像是滑向深渊的道路，将导致华盛顿纪念碑以及杰斐逊纪念碑被拆除。

However, once he was there, he began to understand that there were many problems with the Articles of Confederation (or the legal document that existed before the Constitution).

然而，一回到家中，他就开始认识到《邦联条例》（或宪法的前身）存在诸多问题。

After the start of the Civil War, Virginia seceded from the United States and its capital city of Richmond eventually became the capital of the Confederate States.

后来，在南北战争开始之后弗吉尼亚宣布脱离美利坚合众国，而它的州府里士满最终变成南方邦联的州府。

He went on to condemn angry mobs that by toppling the statues of confederate leaders were seeking to, in his words, eradicate the nation's heritage.

他还谴责愤怒的暴徒，称他们通推倒邦联领导人的雕像来寻求“消除国家的遗产”。

Many of those responding to these events were the same people who responded very differently later when statues of Confederates and slaveholders were the focus.

许多回应这些事件的都是同一拨人，但当邦联者和奴隶主的雕像成为焦点时，他们的反应就非常不同。

They did. They leaped over the wall, bayoneted their enemies, smashed skulls with clubbed muskets, and planted the battleflags of the South on Cemetery Ridge.

将士们群起响应。 他们越后墙，和敌军拼起刺刀。 霎时间，脑浆四溅。 终于，南方邦联的战旗在墓园岭的上空飘扬。

Separately, lawmakers in Mississippi voted Sunday to remove the Confederate symbol from their state flag. Their governor is expected to sign the bill soon.

另外，密西西比州的立法者星期天投票决定将南部邦联的标志从州国旗上删除。他们的州长很快就会签署这项法案。

At one point, the Confederates laid down such terms, and Sherman moved his chair back and said, Well, see here, who's surrendering to whom?

谈判进行到某个时候，南方邦联提出的条件使得舍曼往后移动一下自己的椅子，说道：“不，请注意，现在究竟是谁在向谁投降？”

Officials removed two Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Virginia, including one that was at the center of a deadly riot in 2017, on Saturday.

周六，官员们拆除弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的两座邦联雕像，其中一座曾在2017年的一场致命骚乱中处于中心位置。

As the first female governor of South Carolina, Haley supported the removal of the Confederate battle flag at the state Capitol building.

作为南卡罗来纳州的首位女州长，黑莉支持在州议会大厦撤除“邦联旗”。