Civil War
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Miller, Richard F.

State Military Affairs In Ohio, 1864 represented what is arguably the high point of the state militia system—almost certainly during the Civil War and perhaps for all of American history. ...
( Category: Rhetoric March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Bevin Alexander

Guderian’s and Reinhardt’s panzers were rolling toward the English Channel against virtually no opposition. On the roads, panicked civilians and fleeing soldiers were all mixed together, creating chaos. Infantry divisions ...
( Category: Civil War March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Victoria E. Bynum [Bynum, Victoria E.]

Anna Knight. Photograph courtesy of Minneola Dixon, Oakwood Archives and Museum, Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama. Tom Knight’s racial views conformed to those of his society. He reconciled with the memory ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward H. Bonekemper, III [Bonekemper, Edward H.]

These numbers reflect the Eastern soldiers’ support for Lincoln, Grant and their aggressive efforts to bring the war to a successful close. The next day (November 10) Grant sent his ...
( Category: American Civil War March 2,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:George B. Kirsch [Kirsch, George B.]

10. Princeton Class of 1861: Baseball Nine. During the Civil War the Nassau Baseball Club of the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton) adopted the rules of the New ...
( Category: History of Sports March 2,2020 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Steven E. Woodworth [Woodworth, Steven E.]

Hood rode to the front of his division’s line and called out to the Texas brigade he had once commanded, “Fix bayonets, my brave Texans; forward and take those heights!” ...
( Category: Civil War March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-14 | Author:Michael Hardy

Chapter 10 “I reckon the Devil himself would have run with Jackson in his rear”. Chancellorsville Although not the coldest winter of the war, that of 1862-63 brought abject misery ...
( Category: Civil War March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Wayne Whipple [Whipple, Wayne]

ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE Hampered though he was by unjust debts and unreasonable creditors, Postmaster and Surveyor Lincoln gained an honorable reputation throughout the county, so that when he ran ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Phillip W. Magness & Sebastian N. Page [Magness, Phillip W. & Page, Sebastian N.]

Chapter 9 The Indefatigable James Mitchell Despite his budgetary setbacks James Mitchell continued to press for the British emigration scheme’s revival in the United States. On November 24, 1864, he ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-08 | Author:Larry Wood

( Category: Civil War February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Michael Barton

Source: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885; Project Gutenberg, 2004), vol. 1, pt. 3, chap. 37, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5862. FALL OF ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-14 | Author:Michael J. Forsyth [Forsyth, Michael J.]

Smith concluded by ordering Taylor to prepare three divisions of his command for service in Arkansas while Taylor would take the remaining division and cavalry to ensure Banks continued his ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2020 )