epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:Kimberly Tilley [Tilley, Kimberly]

Detective John Holmlund “Well—he resented Mr. Pennell coming into his house as a friend and then breaking up his home, of course. Mr. Burdick and Mr. Pennell used to golf ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-21 | Author:Kirsten E. Wood [Wood, Kirsten E.]

WHEN ADA BACOT left her father’s house in the spring of 1861 to return to her own plantation, she confronted the unhappy difference between her present and her past. She ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-13 | Author:Jenifer L. Barclay [Barclay, Jenifer L.]

“The Secret of Master’s Cruelty”: Disability in Fugitive Slave Narratives Fugitive slave narratives described harrowing journeys from slavery to freedom and were one of the most convincing strategies for promoting ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Larry G. Aaron

CHAPTER 9 THE OTHER PITTSYLVANIANS Pittsylvania is both black and white and has nearly always been so. And regardless of ancestral origins and the pain of the past, Pittsylvania citizens ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-05 | Author:John M. Belohlavek [Belohlavek, John M.]

6 The Señorita as Fantasy THE FAN, THE FEET, AND THE REBOZO In November 1845, fully five months before the first shots were fired along the Rio Grande, Lieutenant Napoleon ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Glenn Robins [Robins, Glenn]

CHAPTER 6 The Second Andersonville ON DECEMBER 17, 1864, Gen. John Winder ordered the transfer of all prisoners from Thomasville to Andersonville.1 Just four days earlier, Gen. William Sherman’s men ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Stewart Bennet, Barbara Tillery [Stewart Bennet, Barbara Tillery]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Siege and Capture of Atlanta July 18–September 24, 1864 McPherson had been killed and our army was being out-flanked and driven back, but it must be kept ...

epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Joseph L. Harsh [Harsh, Joseph L.]

H. EXCERPT FROM THE REPORT OF JOHN G. WALKER After the war Brig. Gen. John G. Walker would claim that he learned the details of the expedition against the garrisons ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-19 | Author:Sarah L. Hyde [Hyde, Sarah L.]

As in Louisiana, the same time period in Mississippi witnessed new agitation on behalf of public education. Throughout the 1840s, Mississippi governors lobbied the legislature to take action to spread ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Russell W. Blount Jr. [Blount, Russell W. Jr.]

At some point in the early evening, Bedford Forrest makes his escape from the city. Riding with him is Frank Armstrong, whose troops have covered the retreat, and a considerable ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:unknow

PART IV The Fugitive Slave Law and the Coming of the Civil War CHAPTER 7 The Tumultuous Politics of the Early 1850s On the evening of October 14, 1850, a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Woolf [Woolf, Cynthia]

Saturdays were supply days. Two of the men could have done it, but Tyler and Olivia always took the buckboard into Golden and picked up supplies. All of their suppliers ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:John J. Zaborney [Zaborney, John J.]

CHAPTER 6 SLAVE HIRING, HIRED SLAVES, AND URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY Because occupations in Virginia’s cities and industries differed from those in agricultural and other settings, slave hiring was often ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Kathryn Shively Meier [Meier, Kathryn Shively]

“Building Huts for the Army of the Potomac” (Harper’s Weekly, January 18, 1862) Not only did soldiers attempt to protect their bodies from the elements, but they also carefully observed ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-31 | Author:Terrell L. Bowers [Bowers, Terrell L.]

6 Kidd cleaned and bandaged the crease on the side of Lobo's hip. The bullet had carved a three inch groove through the flesh below the hip bone, but it ...