Civil War
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Brian Thornton
53 Lincoln’s shifting views on abolitionism Lincoln continued to put the Union above all else, even as his own personal views on slavery became more convicted. “If slavery isn’t a ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:H.W. Crocker III
Self-Discipline To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was ...
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American Civil War
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:David Montgomery [Montgomery, David]
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Human Resources
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]
[In referring to this period, Grant says that it was the most anxious time of the war when the Army of the Tennessee was guarding the territory acquired by Corinth ...
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American Civil War
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Fiske, David;
PETER JOHN LEE Though Peter John Lee was usually described as a fugitive slave who escaped from Virginia with a number of others in 1833, his wife said that he ...
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Discrimination & Racism
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Mark Tooley
SIX SECURING THE CAPITOL I have said that any man who attempted by force or unparliamentary disorder to obstruct or interfere with the lawful count of the electoral vote for ...
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History & Theory
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James F. Simon
After Douglas had narrowly defeated Lincoln to reclaim his Senate seat, the unsuccessful challenger soberly took stock of his personal finances. “I have been on expences so long without earning ...
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Politics & Government
March 12,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1998-11-01 | Author:Frances H. Kennedy
CS Brigadier General Carnot Posey's Mississippians and CS Brigadier General Edward A. Perry's Floridians swarmed across the tracks and enveloped US Colonel Thomas Smyth's left flank. US Captain Nelson Ames's ...
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Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Selby
The Valley Campaign, 1 January–9 June, 1862. In Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign he had only 4,500 men with which to defend the valley against the invading Federal forces under Gen. ...
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Engineering
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-14 | Author:Ray, Fred [Ray, Fred]
His regimental historian characterized Wooten’s exploits as “proverbial,” adding that “he was liberally used by division, corps and army headquarters for ascertaining the enemy’s lines or movements.” On another occasion ...
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Civil War
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-10 | Author:Graham, David K.;
Confederate Memories The first issue of the Confederate Veteran magazine appeared in 1893, and the magazine ran continuously until 1932. It served, represented, and promoted the voices of various postwar ...
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Civil War
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:J. Michael Cobb
Robert Knox Sneden’s view of St. John’s Church with its steeple and cemetery. Virginia Historical Society * * * Although recently ransacked by marauding Union men, the village at the ...
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Civil War
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Abraham Lincoln
It does look as if the people wanted me to stay here a little longer, and I suppose I shall have to, if they do. —Remark overheard by the diarist ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:LeeAnna Keith
Having seized his highbrow booty, Higginson and his black regiment took pains to cover their retreat, consigning the town of St. Mary and several outlying plantations to the flames.24 Montgomery ...
( Category:
Political Parties
March 11,2020 )
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