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Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | 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, ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2023 )
Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence by Heros von Borcke
epub |eng | 1999-04-23 | Author:Heros von Borcke [Borcke, Heros von]

* * * 1. I marched from Chambersburg to Leesburg, 90 miles, with only one hour's halt, in thirty-six hours, including a forced passage of the Potomac—a march without a ...
( Category: Confederacy February 27,2023 )
Memories of the Confederate War for Independence by Heros von Borcke
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Heros von Borcke [Borcke, Heros von]

* * * 1. I marched from Chambersburg to Leesburg, 90 miles, with only one hour's halt, in thirty-six hours, including a forced passage of the Potomac—a march without a ...
( Category: Regimental Histories February 27,2023 )
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave by Isaac Jefferson
epub |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Isaac Jefferson [Jefferson, Isaac]

CHAPTER 8 Mr. Jefferson was a tall strait-bodied man as ever you see, right square shouldered: nary man in this town walked so straight as my old master: neat a ...
( Category: Abolition February 27,2023 )
Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
epub |eng | 2019-12-18 | Author:Gilbert Moxley Sorrel [Sorrel, Gilbert Moxley]

Chapter XXI Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863 Table of Contents Expectation of revelations—Longstreet and Lee—Attacks not in good combination between the three corps—July 2, situation unfavorable—Our heavy ...
( Category: Abolition February 27,2023 )
A Man of Distinction Among Them by Larry L Nelson
epub |eng | 1999-01-15 | Author:Larry L Nelson [Nelson, Larry L]

CHAPTER SEVEN Land Acquisition, Public Affairs, and Politics, 1783–1799 ________ Following the Revolution, McKee began the process through which he gained full membership as one of the region’s social and ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 27,2023 )
Manifest Destiny by Albert Katz Weinberg
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Albert Katz Weinberg [Weinberg, Albert Katz]

CHAPTER X—THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN The expansionist’s belief that a tide of fortune was carrying the nation out to “sea power” had scarcely seemed confirmed by Hawaiian annexation when it ...
( Category: Civil War February 27,2023 )
Making the Gods in New York by Mary Cuthrell Curry
epub |eng | 2020-07-12 | Author:Mary Cuthrell Curry [Curry, Mary Cuthrell]

Receiving Ilekis Ilekis are bead necklaces made in color schemes appropriate to the various Orisha s. The color scheme and numerical pattern varies from house to house. For example, Shango’s ...
( Category: 20th Century February 27,2023 )
Living a Big War in a Small Place by Philip N. Racine
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Philip N. Racine [Racine, Philip N.]

INDIVIDUALS PART TWO The following stories are about individual residents of Spartanburg District during the Civil War. The tales provide insight into the impact of war on even the smallest ...
( Category: Antietam February 27,2023 )
Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists by Antoinette Sutto
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Antoinette Sutto [Sutto, Antoinette]

9 NEWS, RUMOR, and REBELLION Nicholas Spencer of Virginia complained in March of 1689 of common planters’ “ruinous imaginations.”1 But the rumor panic of 1689 was not the first time ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 27,2023 )
Lynching Reconsidered by William D. Carrigan
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:William D. Carrigan [Carrigan, William D.]

Acknowledgements I thank Michelle Craig McDonald, Michele Mitchell, Moses Ochonu, Tracy Collins Pfeiffer and John Pfeiffer, Patricia Ranft and Nicole Stanton for their comments on different versions of this essay. ...
( Category: Immigrants February 27,2023 )
Lincoln's Wartime Tours from Washington, D.C. by John W. Schildt
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-10-26 | Author:John W. Schildt [Schildt, John W.]

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 18–19 One week before the dedicatory events, Ward Hill Lamon and his top aide, Benjamin B. French, went by rail to Gettysburg to check on all the preparations. ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic February 26,2023 )
The Life Legacy of William F. Drannan by William F. Drannan
epub |eng | 2009-01-06 | Author:William F. Drannan [Drannan, William F.]

As I rode along Gen. Wheaton dashed up by my side and said: "Where can those Indians be and what kind of guns have they? I have been losing men ...
( Category: West February 26,2023 )
The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A by Edward Sylvester Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Edward Sylvester Ellis [Ellis, Edward Sylvester]

CHAPTER XXII. Table of Contents Kit Carson Hears Surprising News—He Visits Fremont—Is Re-engaged as Guide—Fremont's Account of his Visit to Salt Lake. Kit Carson was astonished on reaching Bent's Fort ...
( Category: West February 26,2023 )
A Life Of General Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
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 ...
( Category: Reconstruction February 26,2023 )

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