article_snippet.sent: Thousands turn out every year, including many who trace Thousands ancestry back to the dozens of families who, enticed by the Brazilian government's offers of land grants, settled here from 1865 to around 1875.
article_snippet.sent: I don't speak English and the only place I've been to in the U.S. is Disneyworld, but I feel the heritage,' said 77-year-old Alcina Tanner Coltre, whose great-great-grandparents migrated from Mississippi along with their 15-year-old son. '
article_snippet.sent: My great-grandfather married a Brazilian woman, so My great-grandfather integrated into Brazilian culture pretty quickly, but it's really important to 77-year-old Alcina Tanner Coltre, whose great-great-grandparents migrated from Mississippi along with their 15-year-old son to come out every year to remember where we come from.'
article_snippet.sent: American visitors Rex and Gwen Gray, Civil War buffs who made the trip to Brazil from their home in Tucumcari, New Mexico, were sold. '
article_snippet.sent: It feels really authentic,' gushed Gwen Gray, a 69-year-old retiree originally from Greeneville, Tennessee, explaining that she first read about the Confederados on a Facebook posting a few months ago. '
article_snippet.sent: Descendants of American Southerners Philip Logan and American Southerners Philip Logan wife Eloiza Logan, pose for pictures during the Festa dos Confederados where thousands turn out every year, including many of those who trace Descendants of American Southerners Philip Logan and his wife Eloiza Logan ancestry back to the dozens of families who left Dixie for points far south between 1865 to around 1875 .
highlights_snippet.sent: Thousands turn out every year, including many who trace Thousands ancestry back to the dozens of families who, enticed by the Brazilian government's offers of land grants, settled here from 1865 to around 1875 .
  