epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Steers Jr. [Steers, Edward Jr.]

Left, Samuel Cox Sr. Booth and Herold stopped at Cox’s plantation home, Rich Hill, around midnight on April 15, 1865. Cox saw to their safe hiding in a pine thicket ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Douglas R. Egerton

The presidential contest of 1868 pitted General Ulysses S. Grant and running mate Schuyler Colfax against Horatio Seymour, the former governor of New York, and Francis P. Blair Jr., a ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-02-25 | Author:James M. McPherson

44. Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville, 1968); Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...

mobi |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:William W. Freehling

CHAPTER 21 Suspicious Southerners and Lincoln’s Election After the National Democratic Party split, could Republicans reunite the old National Whig Party elements, despite ex-Whigs’ failure to fuse in 1856? A ...

mobi |eng | 1990-09-01 | Author:William W. Freehling

8 In the face of Henry Wise’s war on the Van Buren-sanctioned evasive gag rule wording, Henry Pinckney felt driven to seek more uncompromising terminology. A worried Pinckney sought out ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Amanda Foreman

Ill.41 General Longstreet’s corps crossing the Blue Ridge from the Shenandoah to the Rappahannock, by Frank Vizetelly. Jeb Stuart succeeded in driving the Federals away from the passes, but he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | 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 ...

mobi | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler

"I'm going to do so right away. Don't bother yourself about me, George. My nerves have been strained pretty hard, and I had to wait until they were quiet until ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:William T. Sherman

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, April 24, 1864. Lieutenant-General GRANT, commanding Armies of the United States, Culpepper, Virginia. GENERAL: I now have, at the hands of Colonel ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Michael Korda

Inaction, overwhelming responsibilities for which he was unsuited, and some doubt about what to do next were certainly part of the problem, but worse was to come. Up until then ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

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 ...

mobi, azw3, azw |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:John Koster & Louise Barnett

(i)A huge number of such cases have been collected by B.J. Burkett and Glenna Whitley in Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Adam Goodheart

THE CONVENTION TO DETERMINE Missouri’s course in the national crisis assembled in St. Louis on March 4. Although this was also, by chance, the day of Lincoln’s inauguration, it dawned ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:James, Jesse [James, Jesse]

We were married in a very small ceremony in Long Beach, and some six months later, our second child was born—a boy. We named him Jesse Jr. “Look at this ...