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Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (Civil War America) by William Marvel
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:William Marvel [Marvel, William]

14: MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA A lack of concert among far-flung Union armies had abetted the rebellion for three years. The summer campaigns of 1861 had flourished and flickered out independently, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 1,2020 )
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox
epub |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Richard Wightman Fox [Fox, Richard Wightman]

AFTER THE GROUNDBREAKING on Lincoln’s birthday in 1914, it took over eight years to complete the Lincoln Memorial. The details of the statue emerged slowly, as Daniel French built larger ...
( Category: American Civil War March 1,2020 )
Lincoln President-Elect by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

Chapter Ten No Occasion for Any Excitement BOARDING YET ANOTHER flag-bedecked inaugural special, Lincoln resumed his journey to Washington on Thursday morning, February 14. After an 8 A.M. farewell to ...
( Category: American Civil War February 29,2020 )
Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 by Peter Baxter
epub |eng | 2014-07-18 | Author:Peter Baxter

RLI, National Parks and BSAP personnel display captured Russian weaponry, Zambezi valley, 1966. Hawker Hunter strike jets were pivotal in neutralizing the stiff resistance from the guerrilla forces during Operation ...
( Category: American Civil War February 28,2020 )
Last in Their Class by James S. Robbins
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:James S. Robbins

LAURENCE SIMMONS BAKER WRITING LONG AFTER THE EVENTS at Gettysburg, Henry Heth echoed what was by then a common critique of the battle: “The failure to crush the Federal army ...
( Category: American Civil War February 25,2020 )
Selous Scouts by Peter Baxter
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Peter Baxter

Selous Scout mortar teams stand by in Gaza Province, Mozambique. John Murphy rests up during an external raid. An air force resupply C-47 Dakota comes in to land at Mapai. ...
( Category: American Civil War February 24,2020 )
Lincoln's Secret Spy by Jane Singer & John Stewart
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Jane Singer & John Stewart

13 Leaving Dixie It was April 2, 1865: A day fraught with panic. A night of terror. The Yankees were coming. Frightened residents hastily packed foodstuffs and china, boxes and ...
( Category: American Civil War February 23,2020 )
Lincoln and Douglas by Allen C. Guelzo
epub |eng | | Author:Allen C. Guelzo

The debate at Charleston marked the end of the third phase of the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns, as well as the end of the only swing either candidate would bother to make ...
( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )
Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas & Anne McLean
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Javier Cercas & Anne McLean

9 At the beginning of 2015, exactly a year after I’d learned of the Shearer’s death from my mother, and two or three since I’d started collecting information about Manuel ...
( Category: American Civil War February 16,2020 )
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean Harvey Baker
epub |eng | 2008-10-17 | Author:Jean Harvey Baker [Baker, Jean Harvey]

BY July 1862 Mary Lincoln had sufficiently recovered to move to the Soldiers’ Home, the presidential retreat on a wooded hill three miles from the White House in the northern ...
( Category: American Civil War February 16,2020 )
For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson
epub |eng | 1997-02-14 | Author:James M. McPherson

CHAPTER 9 SLAVERY MUST BE CLEANED OUT A YEAR BEFORE LEE surrendered at Appomattox, a Texas private predicted that Confederate victory was certain because “we are fighting for our property ...
( Category: American Civil War February 15,2020 )
Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Craig Symonds [Symonds, Craig]

8 “I Shall Have to Cut This Knot” Lincoln as Adjudicator IT WAS NOT ALL BAD NEWS. Though the reports from the Army of the Potomac were devastating, those from ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Megan Kate Nelson

* * * Clark had been back from the Mogollon expedition for two months when a letter arrived in Santa Fe, detailing the discoveries that Joseph Reddeford Walker’s adventurers had ...
( Category: American Civil War February 14,2020 )
The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death by Brian R. Dirck
epub |eng | 2019-02-06 | 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: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 1990-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey]

Richmond. February 11th. Some idea may be formed of the scarcity of food in this city from the fact that, while my youngest daughter was in the kitchen today a ...
( Category: History & Theory January 12,2020 )

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