Civil War
epub |eng | 2017-07-06 | Author:Henry P. Johnston [Johnston, Henry P.]
By this surrender the Americans lost in prisoners two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven enlisted men and two hundred and twenty-one officers, the greater part from Pennsylvania, and nearly half ...
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Historical
June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-06-14 | Author:William E. Gienapp
LINCOLN WORRIED about the effect the proclamation would have on the upcoming state and congressional elections in the North. Indeed, in cabinet discussions Montgomery Blair had opposed issuing the proclamation ...
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U.S. Presidents
June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:David Williams
Seeking safety in numbers, deserters and draft evaders began banding together early on. By summer 1862, there were layout gangs in Calhoun County, Florida, just west of Tallahassee, who had ...
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Civil War
June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Gideon Welles [Welles, Gideon]
1. The article in the Chronicle was entitled “Deficiency of Men in the Service.” In his letter, Welles claimed that the recent enrollment act passed by Congress was operating to ...
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Diaries & Journals
June 27,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-06-16 | Author:Colin Woodard [Woodard, Colin]
FORTY-SEVEN In the fall of 1878, in Wisconsin’s modest lakeside capital, Madison, a young man arrived to begin a year of remedial studies at the state university. Five-eight, 130 pounds, ...
( Category:
Nationalism
June 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:James M. McPherson
Charleston Harbor and Du Pont’s Attack on the Forts, April 7, 1863 can go pirouetting around the harbor and that the forts can be ‘run’—a la Mississippi—and that we can ...
( Category:
Civil War
June 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Lesley J. Gordon
Domesticity in Conflict Union Soldiers, Southern Women, and Gender Roles during the American Civil War LAURA MAMMINA After a year and a half in the Union army, Kentuckian Alfred Pirtle ...
( Category:
Women in History
May 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Brian P. Luskey
M. H. Kimball, Emancipated Slaves (New York, 1863). (The Library Company of Philadelphia) For Webster, this attempt to support the education of former slaves was intertwined with his recruitment of ...
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Human Resources
May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Zachery A. Fry
CHAPTER SIX What the Sentiment of the Army Really Is Capt. George A. Wilbur crossed the dangerous stretch of Virginia countryside between the lines at Petersburg with a flag of ...
( Category:
History & Theory
May 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Christopher J. Leahy
Chapter 14 AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY Shortly after midnight on Monday, October 25, 1841, an American merchant brig, the Creole, slipped out of port at Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to ...
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U.S. Presidents
May 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Dallek & Thomas Jefferson & Abraham Lincoln & Theodore Roosevelt
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Lincoln wrote three autobiographies within two years. The first was to satisfy a request for an entry in the Dictionary of Congress, the second for a Republican friend who ...
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Landmarks & Monuments
May 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Lardas
A nighttime bivouac by members of the Union Indian regiments during the First Indian Expedition. (Potter Collection) This reluctance was motivated, in part, because the Indians regarded Pea Ridge as ...
( Category:
Civil War
April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ron Field
Photographed in 1861 having recently enlisted in the Charlotte Greys (Co. I), 56th Virginia, Pvt John T. Dixon holds a D-handle Bowie knife and has a Model 1849 Pocket Colt ...
( Category:
Civil War
April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Rachel Lance [Lance, Rachel]
* * * — The thick, black foam sausage floated in a line from the pier to the center of Pitt Pond. We had already failed twice, still measuring almost ...
( Category:
American Civil War
April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Ted Widmer
Lincoln’s parade (New-York Illustrated News, March, 2, 1861) THE PARADE Lincoln’s parade was a glorious chaos from the start.105 One observer wrote, “Such a crowd as greeted his arrival I ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
April 8,2020 )
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