Civil War
epub |eng | 2018-12-29 | Author:Robert Leckie

39 Withdrawal from the Peninsula: Union Squabbles in the West GENERAL HILL was right, but the great tragedy of the Civil War was that neither he nor General Lee nor ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffry D. Wert

BY THE TIME THE VERMONTERS had ripped apart the right flank of Pickett’s division, additional Union regiments had reacted to the crisis in front of the copse of trees and ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-26 | Author:Marc Egnal

IV. The November 1856 election showed that the new party gained its strength from voters in the lake districts as well as from those who had been singed by the ...
( Category: Economic History February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald F. Linderman

The Confederate command was never at ease with Mosby’s activities. Stuart, to no avail, urged that he call his companies regulars rather than partisans. Lee several times censured him for ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Martin Van Buren 12 · Martin Van Buren (1836–37) Martin Van Buren had been positioning himself for the 1836 presidential election for the past two years. He had seen Andrew ...
( Category: Civil War February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-24 | Author:Clemmons, Linda M.;

FIGURE 16. Part of General Sully’s army near Fort Berthold, North Dakota, during his summer 1864 punitive expedition. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. Battles like Whitestone Hill and Killdeer ...
( Category: Civil War February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 1994-07-15 | Author:William C. Davis

( Category: Civil War February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-11 | Author:William C. Davis

Rumors that Yankees were taking old men and young boys and arresting them to send north to an uncertain fate might have been untrue, yet they led to great unrest ...
( Category: Civil War February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-22 | Author:Peter Hoffer

5 An Emancipation Proclamation LINCOLN AND THE LAWYER/POLITICIANS in Washington, DC, with the exception of a handful of abolitionists in the Republican Party, had not at first regarded slavery as ...
( Category: Legal History February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Jane Singer & John Stewart

13 Leaving Dixie It was April 2, 1865: A day fraught with panic. A night of terror. The Yankees were coming. Frightened residents hastily packed foodstuffs and china, boxes and ...
( Category: American Civil War February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-20 | Author:Tomblin, Barbara Brooks;

12 Arkansas Post and Fort Hindman This was a most beautiful fight. —David Dixon Porter “Hail to the New Year,” John Morison wrote in his diary on January 1, 1863. ...
( Category: Civil War February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:William Still;Quincy T. Mills; & Ta-Nehisi Coates & Quincy T. Mills

SALT-WATER FUGITIVE. This was an exceptional case, as this passenger did not reach the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia, yet to exclude him on this account, would be doing an injustice ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Wade Sokolosky

Confederate surgeon Stiles Kennedy, 8th North Carolina Infantry Courtesy of Bill Bowers Later that evening it began to rain again and the wounded were moved to the Cobb house porch. ...
( Category: Civil War February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:James A. Morgan

Events began moving even more quickly now. The 13th Mississippi’s Company D, once out of the woods, “acted a conspicuous part” in the assault that followed. “The enemy having a ...
( Category: Civil War February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-25 | Author:Larry Lankton [Larry Lankton]

By the mid-187os, 8,250 adult males lived and worked in Keweenaw, Ontonagon, and Houghton counties (including Isle Royale). Sixty-five percent of them-5,35o men-worked in the copper industry: in the mines, ...
( Category: American Civil War February 18,2020 )