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Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker by James Henry Rochelle
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:James Henry Rochelle [Rochelle, James Henry]

[TRANSLATION.] "Lima, March 13, 1877. "J.R. Tucker, Esq. "39 Broadway, New York City. "Esteemed Friend:—I have received and answer with pleasure your appreciated letter of the 10th ultimo, apprising you ...
( Category: Civil War February 26,2023 )
Let Us Have Peace by Brooks D. Simpson
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 ...
( Category: Reconstruction February 26,2023 )
Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement by Paul E. Fuller
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Paul E. Fuller [Fuller, Paul E.]

VII STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1309-1911 THE INTERNAL DISSENSION that marred Laura Clay’s last months on the Official Board was similar, in some respects, to the ...
( Category: South February 26,2023 )
Letters Of A Civil War Surgeon by Major William Watson Prof. Paul Fatout
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major William Watson, Prof. Paul Fatout [Major William Watson, Prof. Paul Fatout]

3 — 1864 EARLY IN FEBRUARY, 1864, the 105th Regiment, and doubtless other units, were sent to Pennsylvania. Possibly the trip was one of those morale-raising displays, like bond rallies ...
( Category: Confederacy February 26,2023 )
Jefferson and the Virginians by Peter Onuf
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Peter Onuf [Onuf, Peter]

IV. GENERATIONS Over the course of the campaign to draft and ratify the Constitution, Jefferson and Madison conceived of the character of the American people and their role in the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 26,2023 )
Johnson's Island by Roger Pickenpaugh
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Roger Pickenpaugh [Pickenpaugh, Roger]

8 “Almost a Fixed Impossibility” Escapes and Attempts In July 1862 all Union prison camps began forwarding monthly returns to Colonel Hoffman. According to the reports sent from Johnson’s Island, ...
( Category: Confederacy February 26,2023 )
John Washington's Civil War by Crandall Shifflett
epub |eng | 2008-04-01 | Author:Crandall Shifflett [Shifflett, Crandall]

8 First Night of Freedom April 18th 1862, Was “Good-Friday,”* the Day was a mild pleasant one with the Sun shining brightly and every thing unusally quite [sic]. the Hotel ...
( Category: Fredericksburg February 26,2023 )
John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 03 (of 10) by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
epub |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard [Stoddard, John L.]

BRONZE HORSE. A MONSTER BELL, KIOTO. A TEMPLE IN KIOTO. Accepting the invitation which that bell conveyed to us, we strolled toward one of Kioto's many temples. In the one ...
( Category: Southwest February 26,2023 )
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet by Laura M. Chmielewski
epub |eng | 2017-11-10 | Author:Laura M. Chmielewski [Chmielewski, Laura M.]

NOTES 1.JR 59: 87. 2.Susan Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2001), 11. 3.Greer, Jesuit, 186. 4.Dean Snow. ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 25,2023 )
Ironclad Captain by Jay Slagle
epub |eng | 1996-01-15 | Author:Jay Slagle [Slagle, Jay]

Foote was then assisted to his cabin, weak and trembling from his emotional farewell. At 3 P.M. the former Confederate steamer DeSoto dropped down to the Benton to convey the ...
( Category: Naval Operations February 25,2023 )
The Irish at Gettysburg by Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD [Tucker, Phillip Thomas PhD]

LEE AGAIN TAKES THE OFFENSIVE ON THURSDAY, JULY 2 To exploit the gains made on July 1, Lee was determined to maintain the tactical offensive in order to deliver a ...
( Category: Fredericksburg February 25,2023 )
Indians in the Family by Dawn Peterson
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 ...
( Category: Antebellum February 25,2023 )
An Imperfect Occupation by John Boje
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:John Boje [Boje, John]

6 White Man's War THE TITLE OF THIS CHAPTER serves as a reminder of the long cherished but now totally discredited myth that the South African War was an “Anglo-Boer” ...
( Category: Women February 25,2023 )
The Imperfect Revolution by Gordon S. Barker
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 ...
( Category: Antebellum February 25,2023 )
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom by Lucy A. Delaney
epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Lucy A. Delaney [Delaney, Lucy A.]

On the 7th of February, 1844, the suit for my freedom began. A bright, sunny day, a day which the happy and care-free would drink in with a keen sense ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 24,2023 )

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