Civil War
epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Gould, Lewis L.;
9 From “Had Enough” to Modern Republicanism, 1945–1961 the republicans were once again meeting in Chicago in July 1952 amid intense passions as Robert A. Taft and Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
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Political Parties
March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:Robertson, William Glenn;
If not quickly reversed, the loss of the railroad between Knoxville and Loudon would have far-reaching effects on Confederate planning. The East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad represented part of a ...
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Civil War
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Denis Hambucken & Matthew Payson
Buck & Ball Cartridges To improve the effectiveness of smoothbore muskets, many regiments were issued buck & ball cartridges. These combined the heavy stopping power of a .69-caliber lead slug ...
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Military History Pictorials
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Walter Earl Pittman
Chapter 14 Charley Harrison’s War On his long journey by stagecoach to the East, Charley Harrison had three companions, also forced out of Denver by the pro–Union mobs. One was ...
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Civil War
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-03 | Author:Daniel L Schafer [Schafer, Daniel L]
FIGURE 18. Major General Rufus Saxton, avowed abolitionist and a key supporter of recruiting former slaves as soldiers in the Union army. (Courtesy of Library of Congress.) FIGURE 19. Dr. ...
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Civil War
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-09 | Author:Lance J. Herdegen
Breech Loader: Loaded from the rear. Two of the most commonly used pieces were the 12-pound Napoleon, a smoothbore bronze muzzle-loader, and the 10-pound iron Parrott Rifle, one of the ...
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Civil War
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 1992-02-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]
Resolved, That in furtherance of these principles we will use such constitutional and lawful means as shall seem best adapted to their accomplishment, and that we will support no man ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Edwin S. Grosvenor [Grosvenor, Edwin S.]
Smalley did not spare his readers the cost of that panoply: “The field and its ghastly harvest which the reaper had gathered in those fatal hours remained finally with us ...
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Historical
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
CHAPTER VI APPOMATTOX THE darkest hours before the dawn of April 9, 1865, shrouded the Fifth Corps sunk in feverish sleep by the roadside six miles away from Appomattox Station ...
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American Civil War
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Longacre
The corps leader found, however, that he could not disengage until other troops who had advanced far enough to become involved in heavy skirmishing pulled back first; these included the ...
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Civil War
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Kirsch, George B.
10. Princeton Class of 1861: Baseball Nine. During the Civil War the Nassau Baseball Club of the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton) adopted the rules of the New ...
( Category:
History of Sports
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Peter G. Tsouras
Expanding Control Sharpe partially accomplished the first mission by sending Babcock to Washington to set up a system to keep track of the main railroads that Early would have to ...
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American Civil War
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:J. David Petruzzi
Along the stone wall at roughly the center of the area hit by Pickett’s Charge was a small clump of trees. After the war, a Virginia veteran from Pickett’s Division ...
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Civil War
March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Marvel [Marvel, William]
Allatoona Pass, which John Corse successfully defended when John Bell Hood led his army against Sherman’s supply line. Republican political print insinuating that Democratic candidate George McClellan associated with peace ...
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Historical
March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clayton R. Newell [Newell, Clayton R.]
CHAPTER NINE Lee Goes to the Front THE CONFEDERATE VICTORY at Manassas Junction changed the character of the campaign in western Virginia. Garnett’s death on July 13 necessitated a change ...
( Category:
Historical
March 3,2020 )
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