American Civil War
epub |eng | 2018-06-13 | Author:Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Anticipated and Unanticipated Costs of War Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, as the war came to an end and federal occupation and Reconstruction began, the persistence, patience, unflinching courage, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian R. Dirck;

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: American Civil War May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

* * * — ALL SENATORS WERE to take the same oath that had been administered to Chief Justice Chase, but Indiana Democrat Thomas Hendricks objected to Benjamin Wade’s swearing-in. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Stephen Mansfield

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: American Civil War May 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

TOO LATE Had we but met in other days, Had we but loved in other ways, Another light and hope had shone On your life and my own. In sweet ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Ronald C. White, Jr. [White, Ronald C.]

WARD HILL LAMON stirred the pot when he wrote an open letter to the Chicago Tribune in 1886 purporting to tell the real story of that fateful day. Remembrance is ...
( Category: American Civil War May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Singer

12 Heal Thyself If one could blink through a stereoscope at an image of William A. Winder in the late 1860s, there would be no soldier there. Long gone is ...
( Category: American Civil War May 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

THE 29TH PENNSYLVANIA FORMING LINE OF BATTLE ON CULP’S HILL AT 10 A.M., JULY 3. Most of the enemy’s projectiles passed overhead, the effect being to sweep all the open ...
( Category: American Civil War May 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Charles Lane

* * * The Secret Service’s Klan hunt forced Hiram C. Whitley to split his time between the long-distance supervision of that mission and direct management of his undercover operations ...
( Category: American Civil War April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-03 | Author:Sarah H. Bradford [Bradford, Sarah H.]

"I'll meet you in de mornin', When you reach de promised land; On de oder side of Jordan, For I'm boun' for de promised land." The brothers started with her, ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-28 | Author:Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

JAY COOKE— CASH FOR WAR- HARD TIMES AND FLUSH The Union Government was spending easily more than $2,000,000 a day for the war. Chase had reason to say that while ...
( Category: American Civil War March 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Samantha Seiple

Your son is at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown.… He was in the fight at Fredericksburg where so many brave men lost their lives for their Country’s liberty. He ...
( Category: American Civil War February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears

Fredericksburg splintered the political as well as the military landscape. Even as the Committee on the Conduct of the War was taking the generals’ testimony at Falmouth, Senate Republicans of ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John R. Kelso

7. A Defeat and a Victory May to July 1862 After our return from Linn Creek, we again remained in camp training. We were then ordered to Neosho, a large ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Mansfield, Stephen [Mansfield, Stephen]

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 5,2017 )