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HAPPY 190th BIRTHDAY GENERAL J.O.(Joseph Orville) SHELBY..."THE UNDEFEATED" 
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Gen. Shelby was never beaten during The War Between The States ,after the war he and 1,000 of his men went to Mexico...Made into a movie with John Wayne and Rock Hudson (Col.Langdon)...Being Gen. Shelby...He went to Mexico to serve Mexican Emporer Maximilian...Who in the movie Hudson never sees...In real life... Maximilian turns down Shelby's help...But leases Shelby and his men land near Veracruz... They name it New Virginia Colony...They stay for 2 years...When Maximilian is overthrown...They lose their lease ...Gen. Shelby returns to America...He would go on to become a U.S. Marshall......Some of his men would go to Brazil...Where after The War Between The States...20,000 Confederates went and formed a County/State called Americana...about 120 miles from San Paulo...They are still there today...They are known as Confederados...
ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...
