epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:John Esten Cooke [Cooke, John Esten]

* * * 29 General Doubleday: Report of Committee on the Conduct of the War. 30 The officer who carried the order is our authority for this statement. Chapter XVI ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Brooks D. Simpson [Simpson, Brooks D.]

Southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment forced Grant’s hand. Efforts at compromise had failed. Southern whites remained defiant, and Johnson’s inflexibility only stiffened their resolve. Even Sherman complained that “outrages ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-01 | Author:Dawn Peterson [Peterson, Dawn]

FIGURE 7–1. An image that is likely of James Lawrence McDonald (Choctaw), painted during his stay in Ohio, although the current description of the image refers to him as a ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Gordon S. Barker [Barker, Gordon S.]

CHAPTER 6 Anthony Burns’s St. Catharines Safety under the “Lion’s Paw” I stand as a freeman along the northern shore of Old Erie, the freshwater sea, And it cheers my ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Richard McMurry [McMurry, Richard]

That Elusive Turning Point Many writers on the war, when not asserting, sometimes hysterically, that Gettysburg was the “decisive” battle of the conflict, occupy themselves proclaiming that engagement to have ...

pdf | | 2002-07-24 | Author:Robert M. Vaughan

epub |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:Henry Adams [Adams, Henry]

Three days later Monroe demanded his passports. For once, Cevallos showed as much promptness as Monroe could have desired. Without expressing a regret, or showing so much as a complimentary ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donna Russo Morin [Morin, Donna Russo]

GINEVRA From the hidden corners of The Beeches, I watched her sail into the room. My eyes closed as I heard the gasp of wonder over her gown, my sigh ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Cynthia Woolf

CHAPTER 9 Sam didn’t wait to be seated. “Jo tells me the dynamite you took from George Simmons is gone. Stolen.” “Right out of our barn,” said Clare as she ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:David Keller [Keller, David]

Men catching rats at Point Lookout Prison. Maryland Historical Society. The recommended diet, both in the North and South, was 2,325 calories, 75.5 grams of protein and 77.5 grams of ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Ted Maris-Wolf [Maris-Wolf, Ted]

Petition of Jane Payne, Mary Fletcher, and Annah Gleaves Poters for enslavement, 1861. When Jane Payne, Mary Fletcher, and Annah Gleaves Poters were questioned about their unusual joint petition for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Perry

At a crackling fire that fluttered in the early morning breeze sat six stolid figures. One man dressed in a leather loincloth and buckskin shirt began to speak with a ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-10 | Author:R. Gregory Lande

Spiritual photography (Harper’s Weekly, May 8, 1869). Mrs. Lincoln met with Mumler enshrouded in secrecy, no doubt hoping to avoid the probing press in her emotional quest. She was not ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:David Traxel

CHAPTER ELEVEN Henry Ford and the Peace Ship I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-19 | Author:John M. Pafford

* * * 1. O’Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic—1898, pp. 28–29. 2. Blow, A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the ­Spanish-American War, pp. 114–115, 410–411. 3. O’Toole, ...