Civil War
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Randall Fuller

PART III Adaptations 16 Discord in Concord Later Franklin Sanborn would recall that he had been sitting at his desk in his carpet slippers when he heard the knock at ...
( Category: Evolution May 19,2017 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:J. Matthew Gallman & Gary W. Gallagher

NOTES 1. Quotation from Jeff L. Rosenheim, Photography and the American Civil War (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013), 147. 2. Born in England, Thomas W. Bankes came to ...
( Category: Photojournalism March 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Lowry [Lowry, Richard]

Dedication Ceremonies, by Alexander Gardner, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 (illustrations credit 3.17) ONE account of Lincoln’s speech tells of the crowd’s distraction by a photographer hurrying to get his camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Brian McGinty

EIGHT PASSING JUDGMENT The Waring was not the only merchant ship that found itself embroiled in the dispute raging between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Other vessels, many still powered ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Chandra Manning

INTERLUDE Into the Wilderness In the spring of 1865, Fort Monroe bustled as busily as ever. Over four years of war, the Union army had never left, and there was ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Evan Carton [Carton, Evan]

Lying prone in the tall grass, hidden from view, the men spoke little. The waiting was interminable. Only the altered shadows of the trees as the sun inched across the ...
( Category: American Civil War June 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kelman, Ari [Kelman, Ari]

A revised plaque placed in 2002 at the Colorado Civil War Memorial, Denver. This plaque reinterprets the memorial by suggesting that “the controversy surrounding this Civil War monument has become ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Bevin Alexander

CHAPTER 8 Calamity in Maryland Robert E. Lee had gone into the summer campaign of 1862 intending only to maneuver John Pope out of Virginia. He had been forced into ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Edward H. Bonekemper, III

CHAPTER SEVEN DID ULYSSES S. GRANT WIN THE CIVIL WAR SIMPLY BY BRUTE FORCE AND SUPERIOR NUMBERS? THE MYTH If rebel soldiers were invincible and their General Lee above reproach, ...
( Category: Civil War April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Edward Baptist [Baptist, Edward]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 16,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Ari Kelman [Kelman, Ari]

A revised plaque placed in 2002 at the Colorado Civil War Memorial, Denver. This plaque reinterprets the memorial by suggesting that “the controversy surrounding this Civil War monument has become ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism December 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

Eastern Theater, July-December 1862. From W. J. Cooper and T. E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2d ed.), with permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies Bragg had worked on organization ...
( Category: American Civil War October 10,2015 )