Civil War
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin Cooling III

2. Frances H. Kennedy, ed., The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 299–303. For a fuller account of Hunter’s depredations, see Gary C. Walker, Hunter’s Fiery ...
( Category: American Civil War August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:William Marvel

6 Each in His Narrow Cell Forever Laid John Winder’s own inspector had recommended removing at least fifteen thousand prisoners from the stockade even as Daniel Chandler started through the ...
( Category: Civil War August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Rod Gragg

Known as “Old Jubilee” to his troops, Major General Jubal A. Early could be irascible and annoying, but no one doubted his fighting ability. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Francis Augustín O'Reilly

Howard and Sturgis’ Advance Hall’s brigade crawled out of the basin to attack the Confederates beyond the right of Owen’s brigade. Northerners stared across four hundred yards of clear, open ...
( Category: Civil War July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Howard Coffin

Private Jackson sketched soldiers demolishing a Virginia house, probably for firewood. SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT Ralph Sturtevant recalled that a private in the 13th, John Brough from Morristown, was fond ...
( Category: Engineering July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 1897-07-14 | Author:Dinkins, James, 1845-

he would have thrown him in the river had he caught him. But the boy was fleet and realized the value of the gift just at that time. The hand ...
( Category: Memoirs July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Edmund Morris

CHAPTER XY. BIRDS, AND THE SERVICES THEY RENDER. ONE morning in September, hearing shots fired repeatedly at the further end of my grounds, and proceeding thither to ascertain the cause, ...
( Category: Temperate July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Tobin T. Buhk [Buhk, Tobin T.]

Detail of an 1855 engraving of New York City's business district. This area was the target of the 1864 rebel arson plot. One of the city's foremost tourist attractions, Barnum's ...
( Category: True Crime July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Thom Hatch [Hatch, Thom]

Fifteen Culpeper Civil War officers were expected to motivate and inspire their troops under fire by example—bravery was contagious. George Armstrong Custer, however, elevated that responsibility to a higher level. ...
( Category: American Civil War July 11,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:David Fiske [Fiske, David]

PETER JOHN LEE Though Peter John Lee was usually described as a fugitive slave who escaped from Virginia with a number of others in 1833, his wife said that he ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Michael C. Hardy

( Category: Civil War July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:LARRY J. DANIEL

NINE Lost Opportunity? Tilghman Branch THE DEEP, BROAD RAVINE of Tilghman Branch ran parallel to the Tennes see River and extended from Snake Creek to the Western Corinth Road, where ...
( Category: Civil War July 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Frederick Douglass

( Category: American Civil War July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Richard Rubin [Rubin, Richard]

CHAPTER 6 THE FORTIES U.S. POPULATION: 131,669,275 IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES The year 1940 was not exactly a great one for America. ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kelly D. Mezurek

6 A Veteran’s Life Members of the 27th United States Colored Troops returned to Ohio in September 1865 with little recognition, unlike some other black regiments that received welcome home ...
( Category: Civil War July 5,2020 )