epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Flood, Charles Bracelen [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...

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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ...

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 | 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 | 2020-07-04 | Author:Bond, Beverly G.;O'Donovan, Susan E.; [Неизв.]

NOTES This chapter was first presented at “Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866.” I am grateful to Beverly Greene Bond and Susan Eva O’Donovan for organizing this important conference ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anthony W. Wood [Wood, Anthony W.]

Such lines hearken back to the language of liberty employed by Du Bois, realizing his hope that African Americans might convene with Nature, “thinking, dreaming, and working in a kingdom ...