Civil War
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Frederick Douglass
II. THE CIVIL WAR How to End the War TO OUR mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which ...
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African-American Studies
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Abel, E. Lawrence;
Chapter 12 The Politics of Death In August 1864, Lincoln’s chances of reelection were grim. Although he had been renominated at the Republican Convention, in June 1864, there was little ...
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Study & Teaching
March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:Denis Hambucken & Chris Benedetto
Sugar Craved by soldiers, and issued either in its raw form or after it had been refined and whitened, sugar was used heavily in coffee or tea. When supplies of ...
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Civil War
March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Earl J. Hess
7.1. Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia. The scene of a skirmish on August 28–30, 1861, the junction of Columbia Turnpike and Leesburg Pike is in the foreground. The photographer was standing on ...
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Civil War
March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Mark Lardas
Barteau’s scouts saw the fresher tracks headed north and then east. Hatch had also run his Woodruff gun back and forth, leaving four sets of tracks. Barteau and his men ...
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Civil War
March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Unbekannt]
Meantime, Sherman continued his crossing without intermission as fast as his troops could be got up. The crossing had to be effected in full view of the enemy on the ...
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American Civil War
March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Arnold
Along the ‘sunken lane’, canister-firing Union artillery fired point blank at charging rebels. (Library of Congress) Largely by chance, elements of three Union divisions – W.H.L. Wallace, Prentiss, and Hurlbut ...
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Engineering
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Andy Nunez
In this modern photo, two cannon and a caisson mark the position of the Confederate battery at Tapp Farm. In the distance, the Union troops would come pouring out of ...
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Civil War
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Len Barcousky [Barcousky, Len]
About 180,000 black men, including many former slaves, enlisted in Union forces during the Civil War. Engraving from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War Part Second shows quarters for ...
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Civil War
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Gary Yee & Johnny Shumate
Barksdale’s Mississippians are depicted preparing to receive the oncoming Union soldiers who have landed on the western shore of the Rappahannock. They will resort to using cover when they engage ...
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Military History Pictorials
March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Blair, William A.;
7: Free Elections or a Free Fight Touring America in 1864, Frenchman Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne encountered a startling scene in St. Louis. The state of Missouri struck him, as ...
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Civil War
March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-11 | Author:Kirkpatrick Sale [Sale, Kirkpatrick]
IV. Afterwards ON APRIL 16, 1888, black leader Frederick Douglass gave a hard-hitting speech in Washington, D.C. on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. He had recently taken a ...
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African-American Studies
March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Eric H. Walther [Walther, Eric H.]
Millard Fillmore Library of Congress Contentiousness reached another high—or low—in party politics as well. The presidential contest of 1856 received its formal debut on February 22—George Washington’s birthday—as the Know-Nothing ...
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Civil War
March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Shelden, Rachel A.;
Figure 14. Plan of the Senate Chamber in the first session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress. Source: Congressional Directory for 1858. BACK ROW, LEFT BACK ROW, RIGHT 1. James R. Doolittle ...
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History & Theory
March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Edward Bartlett Rugemer [Rugemer, Edward Bartlett]
7 Rethinking Liberty On August 1, 1849, African Americans in Columbus, Ohio, gathered to commemorate Britain’s abolition of slavery in the West Indian colonies. The celebration had been planned months ...
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Discrimination & Racism
March 6,2020 )
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