azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Levin, Jack E. [Levin, Jack E.]

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Abbott

Emma spent her days delivering messages to and from Union commanders. Riding along the bank of the river, she saw the rebel batteries frowning on the heights beyond the city ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bates, Finis Langdon

THE HAND OF SECRETARY STANTON. "The men spoken of by young Garrett as coming back were Herold and Ruddy, returning from Bowling Green, as prearranged at the Rappahannock Ferry, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Daniel, Stashower, [Daniel, Stashower,]

Baltimore’s police marshal George P. Kane, whose loyalties Pinkerton doubted. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Marshal Kane had become a key figure in Baltimore’s effort to erase its “Mobtown” ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:James B. Conroy

The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher wrote to Lincoln that night from his parsonage in Brooklyn. He had read the late editions, and their meeting at the White House had eased ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Joshua Zeitz

CHAPTER 13 Breadwinners The house that Amasa Stone built for his daughter and son-in-law on Euclid Avenue was a lasting monument to his family’s wealth. Fashioned out of sandstone, it ...

epub |eng | 2008-04-24 | Author:John M. Gould [Gould, John M.]

THE WALL-TENT The wall-tent is shaped like a house: the walls or sides, which are perpendicular, are four feet high. A continuous piece of cloth runs from the ground to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Walt Whitman

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1988-06-06 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues I In May 1862, prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak. Most of the Mississippi Valley had fallen to the enemy. In Virginia, McClellan's army ...

epub |eng | 1979-11-30 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

* * * End Project Gutenberg's Etext of Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust [Faust, Drew Gilpin]

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Adam Goodheart [Goodheart, Adam]

Afterward, in a letter to a close friend (a black New Yorker named Randolph Ryer), King exulted like a warrior returning from the field of victory. “I pitched into Secession, ...

epub |eng | 1999-09-06 | Author:John Milton [Milton, John]

1099 Repairing where He judged them, prostrate fell 1100 Before Him reverent, and both confessed 1101 Humbly their faults, and pardon begged, with tears 1102 Watering the ground, and with ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Eric Foner [Foner, Eric]

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...