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Slave Sites on Display by Helena Woodard
epub |eng | 2019-08-23 | Author:Helena Woodard [Woodard, Helena]

Why Slave Remains Were Relocated to the Hermitage At the Hermitage estate of President Andrew Jackson in the spring of 2009, officials dedicated a memorial near a site where the ...
( Category: Black & African Americans March 2,2023 )
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by J. Wilkinson
epub |eng | 1877-01-15 | Author:J. Wilkinson [Wilkinson, J.]

The Scotch lithographers found abundant employment in Richmond, as the Government "paper mills" were running busily during the whole war; but the style of their work was not altogether faultless, ...
( Category: Civil War March 1,2023 )
A Natural-Born Linthead by JL Strickland
epub |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:JL Strickland [Strickland, JL]

The City of Valley, Alabama, bought Langdale and Riverdale Mills, the company’s original two from 1866. Duplex houses on 16th Street, Langdale Mill Village, 1997, courtesy of the collections of ...
( Category: South March 1,2023 )
Nature's Civil War by Kathryn Shively Meier
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 ...
( Category: Antebellum March 1,2023 )
My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. Depew
epub |eng | 2021-01-22 | Author:Chauncey M. Depew [Depew, Chauncey M.]

XVII. GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK STATE Table of Contents There is nothing more interesting than to see the beginning of a controversy which makes history. It is my good fortune ...
( Category: 19th Century March 1,2023 )
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by Various J. Franklin Jameson
epub |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Various, J. Franklin Jameson [Various, J. Franklin Jameson]

(2) Equivalent to $6,400. (3) $12,000. (4) From $24,000 to $28,000. (5) A bay on the coast of Brazil, where the Dutch admiral Lichthart defeated the Portugese in a naval ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic March 1,2023 )
Murder in Roanoke County by John Long
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:John Long [Long, John]

Roanoke County Courthouse. The roof and chimney behind the wing on the left is the county jail. Salem Historical Society. But public opinion was beside the point. It would be ...
( Category: South March 1,2023 )
Murder Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts by Troy Taylor
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Troy Taylor [Taylor, Troy]

CHICAGO’S WICKEDEST PEOPLE Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most ...
( Category: Midwest March 1,2023 )
Sentiments of a British-American Woman by Owen S. Ireland
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Owen S. Ireland [Ireland, Owen S.]

CHAPTER 9 “Unleash the Dogs of War” Joseph returned to Esther in Philadelphia in November 1775, but the fighting and its disruptions followed him home, and for the next two ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 1,2023 )
Valeron's Justice: A Western Adventure (The Valeron Western Adventure Series Book 3) by Terrell L. Bowers
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 ...
( Category: Old West March 1,2023 )
Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
epub |eng | 2021-06-24 | Author:Ida B. Wells-Barnett [Wells-Barnett, Ida B.]

MOB BRUTALITY The brutality of the mob was further shown by the unspeakable cruelty with which it beat, shot and stabbed to death an unoffending colored man, name unknown, who ...
( Category: Black & African Americans February 28,2023 )
Milliken's Bend by Linda Barnickel
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Linda Barnickel [Barnickel, Linda]

-7- “This Battle Has Significance” Milliken’s Bend and the Wider War MILLIK EN’S BEND, although one of the smaller actions of the war, nevertheless is important for three main reasons. ...
( Category: Abolition February 28,2023 )
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S. Onuf
epub |eng | 2007-01-10 | Author:Peter S. Onuf [Onuf, Peter S.]

Priestcraft Jefferson’s animosity toward the clergy did not abate after the war was won and the Anglican Church was disestablished in Virginia. Because establishments survived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 28,2023 )
Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

2. The Heaviest Fire of the War It may be that life is not man’s most precious possession, after all. Certainly men can be induced to give it away very ...
( Category: Regimental Histories February 27,2023 )
Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War by Raphael Semmes
epub |eng | 2012-11-21 | Author:Raphael Semmes [Semmes, Raphael]

CHAPTER XXXIII. Table of Contents CAPTURE OF THE STARLIGHT, OCEAN ROVER, ALERT, WEATHER-GAUGE—A RACE BY NIGHT—CAPTURE OF THE ALTAMAHA, VIRGINIA, AND ELIJA DUNBAR—A ROUGH SEA, TOILING BOATS, AND A PICTURESQUE ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2023 )

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