mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

He set out alone for a while and before long, at the corner of Canal and Scott, he encountered a small boat. It was a military craft, with three men ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:James, Jesse [James, Jesse]

We were married in a very small ceremony in Long Beach, and some six months later, our second child was born—a boy. We named him Jesse Jr. “Look at this ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

The wire did not have to go all the way to Washington; the Secretary was at Fort Monroe. He had arrived two days ago with Lincoln and Chase, primarily for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * CHAPTER V OFF DUTY. "My dear girl, we shall have you sick in your bed, unless you keep yourself warm and quiet for a few days. Widow ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

31 “The Signs Look Better” Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) Lincoln’s popularity soared after the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson. His old friend ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:O'Reilly, Bill [O'Reilly, Bill]

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:Solomon Northup [Northup, Solomon]

THE first year of Epps’ residence on the bayou, 1845, the caterpillars almost totally destroyed the cotton crop throughout that region. There was little to be done, so that the ...