Civil War
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]
An old man who used to frequent this pond nearly sixty years ago, when it was dark with surrounding forests, tells me that in those days he sometimes saw it ...
( Category:
Essays
March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barreyre, Nicolas;
FIGURE 7. Chronology of major congressional debates, 1869–70 Sherman’s call for a pragmatic approach went largely unheeded, however. His colleagues stuck to principled positions that had hardened over five years ...
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History & Theory
March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Grierson
FORECASTING AND PREMONITIONS .................. NOTHING GREAT COMES INTO THE world unattended. Abraham Lincoln was surrounded by men and women who were predestined to their task without being fully aware of ...
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Mysticism
March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:David W. Shaw
The important question in Read’s mind, upon receipt of this intelligence, was whether he should trust it. Disinformation and deception were common in war. He played that game himself. It ...
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American Civil War
March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:Flint Whitlock
NOTES 1. Official Record, 9:647. 2. Nolie Mumey, ed., Bloody Trails along the Rio Grande—A Day-by-Day Diary of Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis (Denver: Old West Publishing, 1958), 33–34. 3. Daniel B. ...
( Category:
Civil War
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Michael Fellman [Fellman, Michael]
On April 17, 1865, and the following day, William T. Sherman sat down convivially with his longtime Confederate opponent, Joseph Johnston, at the Bennett farm in the North Carolina hills ...
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American Civil War
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Ethan S. Rafuse [Ethan S. Rafuse]
General John B. Hood, C.S.A. From a photograph. BLCW 4:275. STOP 7 Chinn Ridge Directions Drive back to the intersection of NEW YORK AVENUE and LEE HIGHWAY (U.S. 29). Turn ...
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South Atlantic United States Travel Books
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Gordon Leidner
The next morning, after being admitted to Lincoln’s office, she continued the narrative: He sat down by his desk, reached out for the petition, wrote across the back, “Release this ...
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American Civil War
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]
It is often supposed that domestic servitude in slave-states is a kind of paradise; that house-servants are invariably pets; that young mistresses are always fond of their "mammies," and young ...
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Metaphysical & Visionary
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Sean McLachlan
Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, which killed 200 mostly unarmed men and boys and left the town in flames, started a new chapter in the Trans-Mississippi theater. The Union command responded ...
( Category:
Civil War
March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Axelrod
GREAT EXPECTATIONS Scott, Lincoln, and McClellan himself had every reason to believe that he would perform admirably. Gallant in battle, a brilliant West Point graduate who had seen European warfighting ...
( Category:
Civil War
March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jeffrey Hummel [Hummel, Jeffrey]
Antietam and Emancipation President Lincoln was not the only one awaiting the verdict of battle. When Robert E. Lee’s army invaded Maryland at the beginning of September in 1862, the ...
( Category:
Civil War
March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Mary Clemmer Ames [Ames, Mary Clemmer]
IT is one of the traditions of Washington that Andrew Jackson decided the exact site of the present Treasury Building. After the third destruction by fire, in 1833, of the ...
( Category:
American Civil War
March 17,2020 )
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